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Combination of gunzip and tar

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Name: Dan
Date: November 20, 2003 at 11:50:27 Pacific
OS: Solaris
CPU/Ram: ?
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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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Name: cha-to
Date: November 20, 2003 at 19:23:35 Pacific
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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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