Revenant wrote: > > There's a very complex method listed in my "Running Linux" book. But, > given the rate at which Linux is evolving, pretty old. > > Is there a easier, newer way than that convoluted string piping from > gzip to tar etc. ?
well, tgz is (supposed to be) a gzip'ed (i.e. compressed) tar (i.e. tape archive) file. it's very eays to pipe. but on recent linux systems like debian you just do a "tar xvzf file.tgz", and everything's fine (gnu tar knows about compression), unless it's a bad package! if you are not very shure about it's contens you should take a look at it's contents with "tar tzf file.tgz". or you could run seperat a gunzip and a tar command. see man tar rsp. man gzip. gerhard
