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[sinowang]

new to linux and new to this forum

could anyone please help give the command line ?

for tar file unzip while assigning another name to the unzipped file folder

Thanks

[sinowang]

I got over it , and have a following question

after unzip the file ,the inside files are .gz ,which need unzipped as well.

can these two stage be done in one step ??

[waterhead]

For more info on using the tar command, read the man page (manual).

$ man tar

NAME
       tar - The GNU version of the tar archiving utility

SYNOPSIS
       tar <operation> [options]

       Operations:
       [-]A --catenate --concatenate
       [-]c --create
       [-]d --diff --compare
       [-]r --append
       [-]t --list
       [-]u --update
       [-]x --extract --get
       --delete

       Common Options:
       -C, --directory DIR
       -f, --file F
       -j, --bzip2
       -p, --preserve-permissions
       -v, --verbose
       -z, --gzip

To extract a file that is a .tar.gz, you would use this command.

tar xvfz filename.tar.gz