Posted by fettah on February 17, 2001 at 07:48:15:
In Reply to: Re: trying to unzip/uncompress a tar.gz file...HELP! posted by Lorraine on January 30, 2001 at 08:59:04:
: : : I've recently downloaded gnapster for linux. I need to decompress the file...
: : : how do I do it? what is a terminal window?
: : gzip -dc filename.tar.gz |tar -x
: : gzip gets you a tar file and then pipe that into tar -x which unpacks it
: : see the man pages for more information. You should end up with
: : a directory called filename with all the goodies in it.