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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