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PostPosted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 10:50 am    Post subject: program to untar un:gz unzip... all in one? Reply with quote

what program can i emerge that allows me under gnome to unpack stuff
maybe some graphical solution?
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 12:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 2:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the 'z' option in 'tar' will gunzip files

so you can 'tar zxvf program.tar.gz' and it will be ready for use.

Just so you know.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 3:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Unixmonkey wrote:
the 'z' option in 'tar' will gunzip files

so you can 'tar zxvf program.tar.gz' and it will be ready for use.


Just as a side note, the 'j' option does the same thing, except for bzipped files. 'tar xjvf program.tar.bz2'

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