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Extracting compressed files
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file.tar : tar xvf file.tar
file.tgz : tar xvzf file.tgz
file.tar.gz : tar xvzf file.tar.gz
file.bz : bzip -cd file.bz | tar xvf -
file.bz2 : tar xvjf file.tar.bz2 OR bzip2 -cd file.bz2 | tar xvf -
file.zip : unzip file.zip
file.rar : unrar x file.rar
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| Quote: | | bzip2 -cd file.bz2 || tar xvf |
You sure? || means "run this if it fails" kind of the opposite of &&. Maybe just one pipe symbol?
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| Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2025 1:21 pm Post subject: Extracting Tar Files Once DownLoaded..... |
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Hi !
I tried:
Terminal> su tar xvzf firefox-2.0.11.tar.gz> Enter
No such file or directory.
Do I have to specify where the file is located ?
Is there anything else I need to know or try ?
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| Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2025 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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| unless you are working in the directory where the file is located, yes, you must know where it's located. I suggest always moving it to an empty folder so that if it unpacks it into the current directory (very few are designed this way, but I have found them), you can keep track of what files it's unpacking. Then just cd to that directory so that you don't have to remember where it is.
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Steve, unless you are working in a directory that is listed in your 'PATH=' statement, you will need to preceed your filename with './'.
So you would want:
Terminal> su tar xvzf ./firefox-2.0.11.tar.gz> Enter
This applies to any file that you want to work on when your directory is not included in your path.
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| Rootboy wrote: | Steve, unless you are working in a directory that is listed in your 'PATH=' statement, you will need to preceed your filename with './'.
So you would want:
Terminal> su tar xvzf ./firefox-2.0.11.tar.gz> Enter
This applies to any file that you want to work on when your directory is not included in your path. |
Hi guys !!
I tried that, this is what I got:
steve@root:~$ su tar xvzf ./firefox-2.0.0.11.tar.gz
Unknown id: tar
steve@root:~$
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su is used to become another user...that command is saying to become user tar.
You would need to su -
put in password
tar xvzf ./firefox-2.0.0.11.tar.gz
Of course, since it's on your desktop, you don't need to become root to do so, in fact, you don't WANT to become root to do so since you'll want to own the files that it extracts.
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Nice
oh ye of little faith 
, i need to add your .bashrc section to mine again 
that was having faith in your post nukes 
yeah ..... that's what it was 
