On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 04:56:30PM -0500, André Bell wrote: > Is there a good shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember all the > operators? > > I ask because I must be doing something wrong. When I ungzip <file>.gz the > system converts my .gz file to one file with no extension instead of > unzipping the file and all of its contents. > > I know there are multiple files in the gzips that I look at because I can > view all of the compressed files when I view the contents of the gzip file > on my pc, just not with gzip on linux :(
Hi Andre gzip only compresses one file at a time, but those files are almost certainly tar archives. (They should end in .tar.gz, but your pc might have truncated the filenames.) You can extract them with tar -zvxf <filename>. You can also list the files in the archive with tar -ztf <filename>, t being the most obvious abbreviation for list :-) Matt -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]