On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 17:56:52 +0100 Bev Nicolson lumos60@gmail.com allegedly wrote:
Googling suggest that was close Richard. I have tried several command lines now and it hasn't done anything or says the command wasn't found.
Bev.
On 8 July 2010 17:07, Bev Nicolson lumos60@gmail.com wrote:
<<tar -xvvzf foo.tar.gz extract gzipped foo.tar.gz
Bev
I can't believe you don't have tar installed. But one of your earlier questions suggests to me that you may be trying the second line "extract gzipped foo.tar.gz" as a command, when Richard's response was simply an explanation of the first line. That is he said try
"tar -xvvzf foo.tar.gz"
and then said this means (slightly expanded) "extract the contents of the gzipped tar archive called foo.tar.gz"
If you look at the man page for tar you will see that the switches "-xvvzf" mean extract, verbose, and filter through gzip the file called "foo.tar.gz"
HTH
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