[NBLUG/talk] New to Linux

[E Frank Ball III]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 09:26:49PM -0700, E Frank Ball wrote:
 > On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 08:49:06PM -0700, Milton Rojas wrote:
 >  > Thanks for your help.
 >  > Another problem I'm facing is how to correctly uncompress .tar.gz files such
 >  > that they can be installed, if they need to do so.
 > 
 > 
 > tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz
 > 
 > see "man tar" for more info


I should add, that if you just want to uncompress, without
disturbing the tar archive use:

gunzip filename.tar.gz

which will leave filename.tar

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us