Manipulating compressed archives under unix











How to manipulate unix compressed files (.Z or .gz files)

In the following examples, 'X' stands in as part of a file name. Example: file name = 'archive.tar.gz', X='archive'.

First, you have to uncompress them. For a 'compress' file:

uncompress X.tar.Z -or-
gunzip X.tar.Z

For a GNU 'zip' file:

gunzip X.tar.gz

GNU zip source code can be downloaded from the Internet.

How to handle unix tar files (.tar files)

tar xvf X.tar

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