----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 2:11
PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] How does one
uncompress files?
Firstly, you need to send your email in plain
text.
Yes,
tar and gzip and gunzip are command line applications not builtin in shell
commands.
The quick and dirty on
tar:
tar xvf
myarchive.tar
you
can do:
tar xvfz myarchive.tar.gz
to
unzip and extract.
this
will extract (x), in verbose mode (v), the file (f) called
myarchive.tar
tar cvf mynewarchive.tar
mydir
this
will create a tar file called "mynewfile.tar" and such up everything from
'mydir', But you don't have to do just dirs, you can give a list of
files:
tar cvf mynewarchive.tar file1
file2 mydir file3
for
a .gz exention you can use:
gzip -d
myarchive.tar.gz
or
gunzip
myarchive.tar.gz
hope
this helps...
HINT: type 'man tar' or 'tar --help' on the command
line
Fred
All of them. Tar, gz and sh. Are they
internal commands or have a program like winzip.?Can you do it from the gui
or do you have to go to the dos?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001
12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] How does one
uncompress files?
rpm is not really a compression tool, but a
package manager, but anyway you can find more information on it at www.rpm.org
most of the compressed files are also
tarred, most of the time you can uncompress them and untar them at the
same time with "tar -zxvf filename" But you can type "man tar" at
the command line to get more details.
Which files are you needing help
with?
Fred
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001
1:09 PM
Subject: [newbie] How does one
uncompress files?
I am having problems understanding how to
uncompress programs or files.Is there a doc that would explain rpm and
other de-compression
tools?
