SuSE KDE: Easy way to untar .taz files

tongar · 01-26-2005, 12:23 PM

I deal with a lot of .taz files and do not want to go to the shell prompt each time and do:

mv filename.taz filename.tar.Z
uncompress filename.tar.Z
tar xvf filename.tar

When I am in the KDE File Manager - Super User Mode, and right click on a .taz file, I do not see any actions or openwith options to do this.

I do see a way to add an OpenWith program and associate it with an extension, but I could not make it work with a test bash script. I could not write the actual bash script as I could not see how to get the filename substring. I was assuming the first parameter would be the filename.taz. Perhaps Openwith is not intended to be used with bash scripts.

This being a rather common task, am I overlooking a better way to do it? Is there some utility I need to get and install that would cause the .taz extension to be registered with KDE for the new utility?

thanks for any ideas,
tongar

Matir · 01-26-2005, 01:03 PM

Unfortunately, I can be of no help, but why are you using .tar.Z or .taz? .tar.gz/.tgz and .tar.bz2 give much better compression.

leonscape · 01-26-2005, 01:11 PM

Install Ark, if you haven't got it already, it supports tar.Z, and integrates into the KDE environment.

To add the extension taz, goto the Control Center->KDE Components->File Associations, tar.Z is under application/x-tarz If you click on it it brings up a list on the right of the file patterns for this type. Currently its set for *.tar.Z simply Click Add, and type in *.taz click apply and your done.

Then right-click the files and select Extract... Also if you click on the file Konq will open it up as if it was a directory.

abisko00 · 01-27-2005, 02:34 AM

From command line, you may invoke tar with the command Z. This runs automatic decompression and you do not need to rename if you are sure about the compression type.

Code:

tar -xZvf filename.taz

This should do the job...as far as I know.

rungss · 06-30-2010, 06:52 AM

Code:

tar -xvf filename.taz

This Worked for me while the following solution suggested by abisko00 didn't

Code:

tar -xZvf filename.taz

Also, using the GUI file-roller worked for me on Ubuntu.

To figure out what should Work I opened Synaptic Package Manager from System => Administration and entered taz in the search field, the only package shown after the filter was file-roller

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Bijay Rungta
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