On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, David Cornish wrote: > > I'm trying to uncompress a *.tar.Z file, but not having much luck. In the > > past, I always typed "uncompress *.tar.Z", but that doesn't seem to work > > anymore. I thought perhaps I could use tar, but either it's not going to > > work or I've just got my syntax incorrect. I looked at its man page, and > > it looks ok, but doesn't work. > > Is it actually a .Z or a .gz pretenting to be a .Z? 'file xxxxx.tar.Z' would > be your friend in this case. tar xz is for gzip files, tar xZ for compress > files. Here's what I got: [bts@papageorgio bts]$ file spider.tar.Z spider.tar.Z: compress'd data 16 bits I then went ahead and did "tar zxvf spider.tar.Z" and it uncompressed just fine! Thanks, Brian > > HTH > > David > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > bts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
