From: Miles (kcolfer at domain iol.ie)
Date: Tue 18 May 1999 - 14:39:01 IST
On Tue, 18 May 1999, John P. Looney wrote:
> Tar understands compressed (.Z) and gzipped (.gz) binaries. I've a little
> shell function that may be handy, for people that want to save time. It
> uncompresses a number of files into the current directory. The usage is:
Tar actually comes with its own flag to handle compressed files. Normally,
all you have to do is "tar xvfz <filename>" to both unzip and untar the
file in the one go. It'll do .Z and .gz anyway, I dunno about .bz2 files.
Ciao,
Miles (Kieran Colfer)
kcolfer at domain iol.ie
kieranc at domain bigfoot.com
http://ireland.iol.ie/~kcolfer
"The optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears this is true."
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