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Re: [edlug] Tarballs ?
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 05:08:06PM +0000, Andrew Ramage wrote:
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> How do you uncrompress .tar.gz files ? I am trying to use tar -xvz but
> the machine seems to freeze and do nothing. Hitting Ctrl-Z and typing
> ps shows tar and gzip to be running, but other than that the machine
> just sits there ...
tar -zxvf file.tar.gz
Because you didn't specify "-f" for "file" the programs are sat
waiting for some input. (Unless you did "cat foo.tar.gz | tar -xvz"
but I'm assuming not as that would be an interesting way of doing it!)
Steve
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