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Re: Extract a gzip compressed tar archive in Linux

S_raparty — Mon, 16 May 2011 08:54:36 -0000

Good thanx Rahul

Re: Extract a gzip compressed tar archive in Linux

Thiyagarajan Veluchamy — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:19:24 -0000

Thanks

Re: Extract a gzip compressed tar archive in Linux

Rahulbiliye — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:50:46 -0000

gunzip file.tar.gz
u get file.tar
tar -xvf file.tar

Re: Extract a gzip compressed tar archive in Linux

Rahul B — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:49:15 -0000

gunzip file.tar.gz

it will give file.tar

then type command tar -xvf

Re: Extract a gzip compressed tar archive in Linux

Bubu — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:19:29 -0000

good stuff

Re: Extract a gzip compressed tar archive in Linux

sikat ang pinoy — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:11:40 -0000

It won't work for me I think gunzip is another option to unzip gzip file.

Re: Extract a gzip compressed tar archive in Linux

neveragree — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:01:28 -0000

Sorry Bozzzzzzzz! it won't worked for me

Re: Extract a gzip compressed tar archive in Linux

smeezekitty — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:26:13 -0000

santhosh are you sure its not a bzip not gzip

Re: Extract a gzip compressed tar archive in Linux

santhosh — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:22:39 -0000

i got the following error when i extracted.
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
Plz suggest any way to extract in linux?

Re: Extract a gzip compressed tar archive in Linux

barretj — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:25:45 -0000

another usefull tar command is this:

tar czvf tarball.tar.gz /tmp/tarball

this will tar and gzip the directory /tmp/tarball into the file tarball.tar.gz

Re: Extract a gzip compressed tar archive in Linux

bofh468 — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:00:10 -0000

Another useful switch is -j for handling bzip2 compression. To do the same as above for a bzip-compressed tarball:

tar xjf filename.tar.bz2