as far as I know, the -v option is for verbose, which I never use. According
to the man page, -p is for keeping permissions, but then again maybe I'm using
an old version of tar
Here's what I do for a gzipped tar (usually .tgz or tar.gz)
tar -zxf filename
If it is bzipped instead (usually ends with .bz2) then you change the -z to
an i, as in
tar -Ixf filename
scott
Russell Hires wrote:
> Actually,
>
> tar xvzf <tarball>.tar.gz
>
> Russell
>
> ____________________________________________________
> _its_ (no apostrophe) means "the thing that it owns"
> _it's_ (with apostrophe) means "it is"
>
> ----------
> >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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