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01-13-2006 #1
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uncompress .tar.z
I am using FC4 which doesn't seem to have the compress utility and I am having trouble finding anything that will unzip, or untar, this file.
Can somebody suggest a solution, please?
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01-13-2006 #2
http://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/procedures/tar.Z.html#2.1 - That tells you how to decompress it.
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01-13-2006 #3
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Fedora does not have the compress utility and the only version I can find is ncompress, which won't compile on my system. When I try uncompress I get the unknown command message
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01-13-2006 #4
Try:
Code:gzip -d <archive>
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Code:[jpq04@localhost Job]$ gzip -d Job3-808235\ Party\ Line\ Brochure.tar.z gzip: Job3-808235 Party Line Brochure.tar.z: not in gzip format
The trailing z is in lower case; the only thing I found that was similar was a frontend for compress, uncompress, gzip, bzip, tar, zip, and unzip.registered linux user: 387197
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01-13-2006 #6
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Originally Posted by jimbaloo
Code:yum install ncompress
Code:tar xvZf Job3-808235\ Party\ Line\ Brochure.tar.z
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01-14-2006 #7
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Well, finally got ncompress installed only to find that that's not what the compression is either.
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01-14-2006 #8
From www.gzip.org, try:
Code:zcat file.tar.Z | tar xvf -
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01-14-2006 #9
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run file on it and see what it says:
Code:file Job3-808235\ Party\ Line\ Brochure.tar.z
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02-25-2006 #10
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If you don't have your answer yet...
It's in the man pages for gzip; here is a partial cut and paste:
gunzip takes a list of files on its command line and replaces each file whose name ends with .gz, -gz, .z, -z,
_z or .Z
gzip compresses but can be coerced into doing other things.
gunzip decompresses
keeping it very simple:
gunzip filename.tar.Z
Best of luck