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corbis_demon 09-09-2009 02:17 PM
how to extract gzip'ed text file?
 
Hi,
While wanting to create a gzip'ed file from 3 input files:

Code:
tar -cvzf file.tar.gz foo1 foo2 foo3
I did this:

Code:
tar -cvzf foo1 foo2 foo3
Is there a way I could get back foo1 in it's original format? Please advise.

druuna 09-09-2009 02:56 PM
Hi,

The original foo1 is gone (I do hope you made backups...), it now holds foo2 and foo3. Thre's no way to recover the original textfile.

corbis_demon 09-09-2009 03:15 PM
I was afraid that would be the case. And unfortunately, I didn't back it up. Thank you, nonetheless, for your reply.


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