ziped tarball .tgz
Tommy Reynolds
Tommy.Reynolds at MegaCoder.com
Wed Sep 8 16:12:02 UTC 2004
Uttered littleguru <littleguru at sympatico.ca>, spake thus:
> What the hell is .tgz ? I can not open it at all ,we have a software
> that generate this kind of ziped tar ball , but i can not open it with
> tar or gzip .
The ".tgz" is a compressed tar file. The other accepted suffix is
".tar.gz". Read the file like this:
$ tar -zxf foo.tgz
You can generate one, too, like this:
$ tar -zcvf foo.tgz foo
I'd use the ".tar.gz" suffix instead; then you wouldn't "just have to
know" what it means.
Cheers!
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