Installing Tar

[Res]

modern day tar is intelligent enuf you dont have to tell it teh 
compression type hence xvf is all you need

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, user1 wrote:

> To create a tar file:
>
> tar cvzf bigfile.tgz file1 file2 ...
>
> To unpack a tgz file:
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> tar zxvf bigfile.tgz
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> c = create
>
> z = unzip
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> v = verbose (to follow what is happening)
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> f = filename
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> x = extract
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> see man tar
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Res

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