> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf
It's a file who's contents have first been 'tar'd up into one file. Then, that one file is compressed. It's probably more often called a *.tar.gz file, in case you've seen those before. You can either 'unzip' or 'gunzip' it which will leave you with a *.tar file. Then un-tar it. Since the 'tar' command understands gzip, the simpler way may be to 'tar xfzv' the file. This will gunzip it and then un-tar it in one command. Hall
