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| jeevan |
 Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:05 am Post subject: unix help |
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Grand Master
Joined: 12 Nov 2005
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how guys,
how to extract a file whic has .tar.Z extension
thanks
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| JT |
| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:11 am Post subject: |
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Padawan
Joined: 27 Mar 2003
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Location: Hartford, CT.
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uncompress xxxxxxx.tar.Z
followed by:
tar -xvf xxxxxxx.tar |
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| BenR |
| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:39 am Post subject: |
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Acolyte
Joined: 31 Jan 2006
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Location: Hursley, UK
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| I think tar -xvzf also works. |
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| wschutz |
| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:48 am Post subject: |
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Jedi Knight
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
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Location: IBM (retired)
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I think only gnu's tar supports the -z flag, but I might be wrong .....
This should always work:
uncompress -c xxx.tar.Z | tar xv
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| HubertKleinmanns |
| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:38 am Post subject: |
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Shaman
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As far as I know, GNU tar has an option z to (un)compress with the gzip algorithm and Z to (un)compress with the compress algorithm.
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| jeevan |
| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:18 am Post subject: |
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Grand Master
Joined: 12 Nov 2005
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it worked as
uncompress
tar - xvf
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| csmith28 |
| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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Grand Master
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jeevan, stop posting OS Related questions in WMQSeries Forums. I'm getting tired of moving your threads.
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| jeevan |
| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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