On 12-May-99 Matt Folwell wrote: > Hi Andre > gzip only compresses one file at a time, but those files are almost > certainly > tar archives. (They should end in .tar.gz, but your pc might have truncated > the filenames.) You can extract them with tar -zvxf <filename>. You can > also list the files in the archive with tar -ztf <filename>, t being the > most > obvious abbreviation for list :-)
I thought Andre was looking for an alias, so he would not need to remember the switches. something like: alias tarx='tar -xvzf $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6' for his .bash_profile ? -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
