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Combination of gunzip and tar

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Name: Dan
Date: November 20, 2003 at 11:50:27 Pacific
Subject: Combination of gunzip and tar
OS: Solaris
CPU/Ram: ?

Comment:

Hello
I'm trying to use a combination of gunzip and tar to unpack and unzip a *.tar.gz file. I tried gunzip ~/myfile.tar.gz | gtar -x
This will unzip the file, but it won't unpack. Any hints?
thanks a lot
Dan

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Response Number 1

Name: cha-to
Date: November 20, 2003 at 19:23:35 Pacific
Subject: Combination of gunzip and tar

Reply: (edit)

Cool, I've used tar but never seen "gtar" before, learned something new! Thanks! :)
Did a quick search and found this site
http://www.gzip.org/#faq6
says to use this:
gtar xvzf file.tar.gz
try that, maybe? There's another example in there too if that doesn't work for you - it uses gunzip and tar, not gtar.
D.O.

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