Actually,
tar xvzf <tarball>.tar.gz
Russell
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_its_ (no apostrophe) means "the thing that it owns"
_it's_ (with apostrophe) means "it is"
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>From: Andrew Wyatt <awyatt@intergate.cx>
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] "Tarballs"????
>Date: Sun, Jun 3, 2001, 8:57 AM
>
> On 03 Jun 2001 05:05:52 -0400, Anita wrote:
>> Ok,
>>
>> I know I've seen this before, but how the heck do you un-gz a "tarball"?
>> I know it's a specific command, but for the life of me I don't remember
>> what it is......I've got three of them that I need to open and because
>> of all the problems with RPM formats (everyone adapting it to their own
>> distro), no one seems to want to use it...so please HELP!!!!
>>
>> Anita
>>
>
> gunzip tarball
>
> or
>
> tar -xpzf tarball
>
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