On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 17:57 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > 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. > > [Please don't top-post on this list. See the Guidelines.] > > 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 > Whether the above will work depends on how it was tarred. You man have to say: tar xvzf bobg.tar.gz ./bobg/foo or maybe foo is not at the top of the directory. tar tvzf bobg.tar.gz will tell you that. Also you left out the z option that you need to unzip. -- ======================================================================= A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
