[olug] tar ?? i think

[Adam Lassek]

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 16:37, Christopher Cashell wrote:

> In order to access install_flash_player_6_linux.tar.gz, you would run:
> 
>  gzip -d install_flash_player_6_linux.tar.gz
> 
> Which would give you a resulting file without the ".gz" extension.  You
> then want to untar this file.  You do that with: 
> 
>  tar -xvf install_flash_player_6_linux.tar
> 

You can also just add the 'z' flag to tar to do it in one step:

tar zxfv install_flash_player_6_linux.tar.gz

or, like Andrew pointed out if you have a .bz2 instead of gz:

tar jxfv archive.tar.bz2

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