Can someone tell me what this really means?

kb2tfa · 04-28-2009, 01:00 AM

can someone tell me what the stuff before and after the file name is?

tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.1.tar.gz -C /opt

chrism01 · 04-28-2009, 01:22 AM

You need to read the manual pages for the tar cmd; use this at the cmd line

man tar

anyway,

tar - tape archive cmd
x - extract content
v - verbose
f - next arg is file to work on
z - file is compressed with gzip; see gzip man page

-C - next option is a target dir

/opt - target dir to put extracted content into

bookmark/read this: http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

Robhogg · 04-28-2009, 04:17 AM

Sorry, mispost