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how to uncompress a .tar.gz file

September 21st, 2006 by Lawrence David

to decompress a .tar.gz file, try:

$tar -zxvf myfile.tar.gz

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2 Responses to “how to uncompress a .tar.gz file”

1. on 23 Apr 2007 at 8:38 am   sarmad

   thanks aloot

2. on 19 Jul 2007 at 5:12 pm   Christopher Green

   For a bzip2 (*.tar.bz2) use this:
   tar -xvjf myfile.tar.bz2

   And for some light reading:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bz2