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Title: what is the command to expand a tar file
Post by: stiperstones on January 03, 2005, 04:29:45 PM

Hi i are trying to expand xoops into a html folder on an ibay cannot rember correct command

Title: Re: what is the command to expand a tar file
Post by: psoren on January 03, 2005, 05:35:09 PM

Quote from: "stiperstones"

Hi i are trying to expand xoops into a html folder on an ibay cannot rember correct command

tar -xvzf yourfile.tar.gz

Or use midnight commander:
mark the file and hit enter (make sure it's not executeable), and copy the contents to the dir you want.

Per

Title: Thank you
Post by: stiperstones on January 03, 2005, 07:25:21 PM

Thank you very much psoren

Title: Re: what is the command to expand a tar file
Post by: raem on January 04, 2005, 02:06:10 AM

stiperstones

Don't forget the man command, good for finding lots of answers
eg
man tar

etc etc etc