what file association to use for tar gz files

dogface · 08-06-2004, 08:37 AM

From the fedora desktop i used the file find and then I want to view the contents of a smb.conf(5)gz file..then in order to view the contents i need to know what viewer use use to associate looking at the file with.
can anyone help with this ?

rjlee · 08-06-2004, 08:51 AM

smb.conf(5).gz is probably a gzipped manual page, not a gzipped tar archive.

gzip is a compression algorithm that can be applied to any type of file; tar is a file archiving format that lets you put several files into one but doesn't compress them.

Assuming it is a manual page, you can view it with the man command in a terminal.

Code:

man smb.conf(5).gz

.

You can always use gunzip to uncompress .gz files, and file to guess what kind of file it is.

Hope that helps!

dogface · 08-06-2004, 09:37 AM

It replied back "open with a viewer or an application" i entered application and gunzip but nothing happend, it choked.

dogface · 08-06-2004, 10:47 AM

Also, I checked installed packages and gzip is installed, it must be something else that i need to open and view this file that i DONT have
installed yet.

rjlee · 08-09-2004, 02:59 PM

gunzip is a command-line tool. If you want a GUI program, you could look at karchiver.

From what you just said, I'm assuming that you're trying to open the file directly from a web-browser, and downloading it from the web. In which case, you've just unzipped the archive file inside your internet files cache. Try saving it to disk and using a terminal, or open it in karchiver, file roller, or ark.

tutwabee · 08-09-2004, 03:04 PM

I use "tar xzvf" as the default application for all of my tar.gz files. This makes it so when I double click on a tar.gz file it automatically extracts it into a nice little folder. I am currently working on a shell script to decompress any type of archive with the correct program by default. I'll post it here when I'm done maybe.