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Why this command to unzip a tar.gz?
Name: sonylloyd Date: December 29, 2003 at 07:56:22 Pacific OS: BSD Unix CPU/Ram: 600MHZ/650MB
Comment:
I usually see "gzip -cd XX.tar.gz | tar xfv - " to untar tar.gz packages. But why using such a long command while you could go the shorter way with "tar zxvf xx.tar.gz"??
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