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HELP! Unzipping .tar .zip files
Name: Doug Date: April 20, 2002 at 13:11:30 Pacific
Comment:
Could someone give me some help installing and unzipping .tar and .zip files. Everytime I try one of the tar zxvf commands, it says that it cannot find the file that I put in. I do not know how to get the computer to recognize the file and then unzip it. Thanks for any help!
Name: john Date: April 20, 2002 at 13:59:23 Pacific
Reply:
To unzip a file unzip filename.zip to untar a .tar.gz fil tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz to unzip just a tar tar -xvf filename.tar
Hope that helps john
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Response Number 2
Name: richard w Date: April 22, 2002 at 03:20:27 Pacific
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You might try giving the absolute path to the file, e.g. tar -xvf /home/me/thisfile.tar or tar -xvf ./thisfile.tar if the file is in the present working directory.
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