On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 15:08 -0700, jack craig wrote:
> it only makes sense, zip deflated the individual files and tar is
> ignorance of that requirement.
> hence the untar, then unzip.
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There is nothing in the OP's message to indicate how the tar file was
created. The usual way is similar to:
tar cf - dir | gzip > dir.tar.gz (or dir.tgz, it's irrelevant).
(Note gzip, not zip). The advantage of doing it this way is that it will
almost always give a smaller final file, as the compression phase can
utilize redundancy over the whole tar file and not one component at a
time.
If this is in fact what the OP did, then the current version of tar can
read it directly without an intermediate gunzip stage. In fact it can
detect the compression automatically without the need for a specific
command option. Thus:
tar tvf bobg.tar.gz
will list all the files, and
tar xvf bobg.tar.gz foo
will extract file "foo"
poc
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