Quick...Someone Tell Me How To Open a Tar File in .tgz format

njschroe · 06-09-2005, 05:44 PM

I already know these formats:

tar -xvf file.tar
tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2
tar -zxvf file.tar.gz

But, I have never seen the .tgz format before.

Thanks

KimVette · 06-09-2005, 05:48 PM

.tgz is usually (read usually as always) a tar file compressed using gzip

to unpack:

Code:

gunzip foo.tgz

(this will result in foo.tgz being replaced by an ungzipped foo.tar)

Code:

tar -xvf foo.tar

(this will extract the files)

trevelluk · 06-10-2005, 04:29 AM

Or in one line:

tar -xzvf foo.tgz

reddazz · 06-10-2005, 04:58 AM

You may also see files named as *tbz they are basically bzipped files opened the same way as *tar.bz2 files.