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Re: [edlug] Tarballs ?
Thanks to all who pointed out that I needed to add -f to the options. I
have now completed the installation of Mozilla 1.7b.
Justin B Rye wrote:
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 05:08:06PM +0000, Andrew Ramage wrote:
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 ...
Quicker posters will already have said: tar xzf tarball.tgz
But if the contents are just text you can read them inside the
tarball with some pager setups (zcat+less, lesspipe, most).
--
Andrew
Quos deus vult perdere, prius dementat
Euripides, from Lycurgus (9th C BC)
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