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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] uncompressing .tgz file
Date: 7 Jun 1995 13:18:40 +0200
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Alan Yang <ayang@ppg01.sc.hp.com> wrote:
>Can somebody tell me how to uncompress .tgz file, and where can
>I get the program(maybe the source)?
.tgz is a crippled file name suffix standing for ``.tar.gz'', meaning
it's a tar archive file compressed with gzip. (It's certainly rather
obvious for which kind of ancient file system the crippling has been
done. :)
Generally, look at the file with:
gzcat file.tgz | tar -tf -
or extract it with
gzcat file.tgz | tar -xvf -
Since i assume you're running FreeBSD which comes with GNU tar, you
can ease the handling by letting GNU tar call the gzip program:
tar -tzf file.tgz (to view the TOC)
tar -xvzf file.tgz (to extract)
To your second question: it's not clear to me which program/source you
are referring to.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)