uncompress

David Cornish mail at davidcornish.com
Sat Nov 15 16:10:59 UTC 2003


> I'm trying to uncompress a *.tar.Z file, but not having much luck.  In the
> past, I always typed "uncompress *.tar.Z", but that doesn't seem to work
> anymore.  I thought perhaps I could use tar, but either it's not going to
> work or I've just got my syntax incorrect.  I looked at its man page, and
> it looks ok, but doesn't work.

Is it actually a .Z or a .gz pretenting to be a .Z?  'file xxxxx.tar.Z' would 
be your friend in this case.  tar xz is for gzip files, tar xZ for compress 
files.

HTH

David





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