Re: Tar.exe doing nothing

["Matthew Smith" <matts at bluesguitar dot org>]

gunzip < filename.tar.gz | tar xvf -

That will work with most any version of tar.


> On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:12:33AM +0200, Jonas Jensen wrote:
> >Well, silly me :-)
> >
> >Now, 2 more questions about that:
> >
> >-What the hell is the purpuse of that feature?
> 
> Tar used to be commonly used with a tape device.  If you don't use the
> -f option it defaults to an arbitrary device for extraction.  I assume
> that cygwin defaults to standard input.
> 
> In case it isn't obvious to you, the Cygwin project did not invent the
> tar program.  This tar behavior is far from new.  The tar program has
> been a standard part of UNIX for a long long time.  Cygwin is a UNIX
> emulation environment, so...
> 
> >-Is there an easy program to unzip the contents of a .tar.gz file
> >without first using gzip.exe and then tar.exe?  Or a good way to set up
> >an alias/script to do this?
> 
> I sounds like you still aren't reading the "tar --help" output very
> closely.
> 
> The '-z' option automatically uncompresses an archive before extraction
> or creation:
> 
> tar -xzf somefile.tar.gz
> 
> cgf



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