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untar a .gz file
Name: merajunk_merahai Date: January 8, 2003 at 09:30:22 Pacific OS: Solaris CPU/Ram: No Clue
Comment:
I am getting directory checksum error for tar commands.
%tar tvf myfile.tar.gz %tar -xvf myfile.tar.gz
I get the same error. I downloaded a file from sourceforge.net and am trying to untar.
Does this mean that the file is corrupted? I tried to download and untar several times.
Name: joe Date: January 8, 2003 at 11:47:26 Pacific
Reply:
they are gzipped, you need to gunzip them... there are lot's of freeware packages for gunzip...
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Response Number 2
Name: Rex Lopez Date: January 8, 2003 at 17:18:48 Pacific
Reply:
If u have gzcat you can also use:
%gzcat tarfile.tar.gz | tar xvf -
DON'T forget the hyphen on the end as it tells tar to read from the pipe on stdin
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Response Number 3
Name: Fifield Date: January 9, 2003 at 11:56:43 Pacific
Reply:
You didn't specify which program you were trying to untar, but ...
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