Re: how do i uncompress the tar archive

["Binand Raj S." <binand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

rohit sharma forced the electrons to say:
> how can i uncompress the tar archive after uncompressing the gz file say the 
> original one is
> blah.tar.gz
> i executed gunzip blah.tar.gz
> i got
> blah.tar
> i couldn't uncompress it further than this i digged up the man too but 
> couldn't get to know further as error is always generated.

The way to untar a tar file is

tar xf whatever.tar

You can use tar directly on a .tar.gz file as:

tar zxf whatever.tar.gz

This works only on GNU tar, however.

Binand

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