On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:17:58PM -0500, Faisal Naeem wrote:
> I maybe wrong but I dont think that sun's version of tar supports -z
you are correct.
one could download a version of gnu tar, which does support the -z option
from sunfreeware.com (must be root to install as they're pkg format). Don't
forget gzip while you're out there.
> so
> gunzip file.tgz
> tar -xvf file.tar
> should work.
or, to more perfectly emulate the behaviour of tar -xzvf , skip the
intermediate file with
gzip -dc file.tgz | tar -xvf -
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