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Date:      Mon, 12 May 1997 19:01:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To:        Bernard Courtney <bc@bythehand.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UN Tar
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.970512190036.17671A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <3377B931.244C@bythehand.com>

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To untar a .tgz or .tar.gz archive:

tar xzvf filename.tgz

Or if it's a .tar.Z:

tar xZvf filename.tar.Z

If it's not compressed at all, leave out the [z|Z].

On Mon, 12 May 1997, Bernard Courtney wrote:

> HI all,
> 
> Quick question- what is the command to un tar a local file?  eg. I have
> qmail in the /var directory, I want to extract it to the /var directory-
> what is the command?
> 



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."




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