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How To Uncompress Open Tar.gz Files T52
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This Post Was Posted On Apr 28, 2008 By Webune #2228

How To Uncompress Open Tar.gz Files T52 by Webune

tar is a compression technology used to create a Tape ARchive. The resulting file is known as a tarball.

If you have Window, this is the same as a Zip file. You use winzip to compress and uncompress .zip files.So its the same idea. To uncompress the files (or to get the files out of a tarball), you can use the following commands:

Code/Command:

tar xvf filename.tar

If the tarball has also been gzipped (compressed), you can use the following command:
Code/Command:

tar xvfz filename.tar.gz

If you only want certain directories from the tarball, do this:
Code/Command:

tar xvzf filename.tar.gz */dir.you.want/*

If you have a .tar.bz2 file, then you need bzip2 installed (/usr/ports/archivers/bzip2), and you issue this command:
Code/Command:

tar yxf filename.tar.bz2

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