Combination of gunzip and tar on Solaris

dwidmer · November 20, 2003, 3:08pm

Hello
I'm trying to use a combination of gunzip and tar to unpack and unzip a *.tar.gz file. I tried gunzip ~/myfile.tar.gz | gtar -x

This will unzip the file, but it won't unpack. Any hints?

thanks a lot

Dan

Optimus_P · November 20, 2003, 3:31pm

gzcat filename.tar.gz | tar -xpf -

norsk_hedensk · November 20, 2003, 4:32pm

or:
tar xvfz filename.tar.gz

jsilva · November 20, 2003, 6:26pm

or...

gzip -cd filename.tar.gz | tar xfv -

kduffin · November 20, 2003, 10:22pm

Dan

You probably already know this, but worth pointing out. Often files that are tar(d) and gzip(d) have a .tgz extension.

Cheers,

Keith

dwidmer · November 20, 2003, 11:17pm

Thanks a lot y'all!

Dan