Extracting Files and / or Copy files

[Nils Kassube]

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Jan Sneep wrote:
> I'm trying to extract a file from a tar.gz file which I downloaded onto
> my desktop.

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> So how do I either ... login as "root" ... or give Extract sudo
> permissions ... or what is the equivalent to the old DOS copy
> command???

If you want to login as root, use

sudo su

or if you only want to execute one command

sudo <command>

is easier. In your case of extracting a .tar.gz file use

sudo tar xfz filename.tar.gz

The equivalent to the DOS copy command is cp -- have a look at

man cp

to find out how to use it.


Nils