When you get a file such as file.tar.gz , do you need to do gunzip file.tar.gz tar -xvf file.tar
Or can u go straight to: tar -xvzf file.tar.gz
I have been doing the latter, but *all* of my compiles have gone wrong. What's the difference between the two?
Ricardo
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Ricardo Campos wrote:
When you get a file such as file.tar.gz , do you need to do gunzip file.tar.gz tar -xvf file.tar
Or can u go straight to: tar -xvzf file.tar.gz
I have been doing the latter, but *all* of my compiles have gone wrong. What's the difference between the two?
there is no real difference, the z flag on tar uses gunzip to decompress the file into memory, then it untar's it....
Sz
Ricardo
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