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Re: Decompress and extract a tgz or tar.gz archive in a single step

qdideas — Sun, 15 May 2011 00:39:49 -0000

Thanks for adding that updated information.

Re: Decompress and extract a tgz or tar.gz archive in a single step

Shadur — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:37:00 -0000

You're not allowed to create a directory bin/cob32 in /ITS/release/hawai.

Re: Decompress and extract a tgz or tar.gz archive in a single step

Karen — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:10:13 -0000

Your original method was correct. The tar commands on AIX, HP-UX and Solaris do not accept the options z or j.

For those lazy GNU people, you can actually omit the letter too, as GNU tar will work out what compression algorithm was used. But the original post done this is the most portable and professonal way

Re: Decompress and extract a tgz or tar.gz archive in a single step

Cyril — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:42:44 -0000

I am under Solaris 10. tar command still has no "z" option.

Your tip comes in handy! Thanks.

Re: Decompress and extract a tgz or tar.gz archive in a single step

perk — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 05:15:23 -0000

exactelly true ur the best......

Re: Decompress and extract a tgz or tar.gz archive in a single step

JayJay — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:30:37 -0000

Try typing sudo before gzip

Re: Decompress and extract a tgz or tar.gz archive in a single step

pmlathigara — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:21:02 -0000

i got following error when i am trying to run the above command.

/ITS/release/hawai > gzip -dc sx51_wp4_hp_itanium_dev.tar.gz | tar xf -
tar: ./bin/cob32 - cannot create
tar: ./bin/cob64 - cannot create
tar: ./bin/cobffnd32 - cannot create
tar: ./bin/cobffnd64 - cannot create
tar: ./bin/cobffnd32_t - cannot create
tar: ./bin/cobffnd64_t - cannot create
directory checksum error

Re: Decompress and extract a tgz or tar.gz archive in a single step

Quinn McHenry — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:48:42 -0000

Oh, yeah, I'll admit that command is easier, although back in 2003 it only seemed to work in some linux distros. I was using Solaris (probably 7 at the time) and that tar didn't have that cool option. I don't have a Solaris box handy now, but I would be surprised if that hadn't crept its way in yet.

Should be noted that 'j' in place of 'z' in your command will extract a bz2 archived tar file. J. Really. I guess all the appropriate letters were on vacation.

Re: Decompress and extract a tgz or tar.gz archive in a single step

Jeff — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:38:59 -0000

this is easier:

# tar xvzf target.tar.gz