On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 04:56:30PM -0500, André Bell wrote:
>
> I ask because I must be doing something wrong. When I ungzip <file>.gz the
> system converts my .gz file to one file with no extension instead of
> unzipping the file and all of its contents.
>
> I know there are multiple files in the gzips that I look at because I can
> view all of the compressed files when I view the contents of the gzip file
> on my pc, just not with gzip on linux :(
A gzip file only contains one file. Sometimes that one file happens to be a
tar file (ie an archive) in which case you use tar to extract it's contents
after you have unzipped it. For example:
You start with foo.tar.gz
gunzip foo.tar.gz Now you have a file called foo.tar which
should be much larger than foo.tar.gz was.
tar -xvf foo.tar Now all the files are extracted from foo.tar
As others have said, you can do this all in one step with tar -zxvf
foo.tar.gz.
In general, files that end in .tgz or .tar.gz are gziped tar archives while
files that just end in .gz are really just one file.
>
> If you knoww why this happens and know what I need to do to work around it
> please let me know.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Andre'
> p.s. If the files are small enough when uncompressed I just uncompress them
> and then copy to a floppy before moving everything over to my debian/linux
> system. Seems there's gotta be a better way :(
>
> I'd use my modem in the debian pc but I'm only running a 486 there and it
> is terribly slow at downloading :( So I download with my pc and trasnfer
> via floppies.
>
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