Re: gzip

[John McKee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is the -z flag available?  That would run the file through gunzip as
contents are extracted..

tar -zxvf <filename>


Works in Linux.  Don't know if it works the same way on the i.


John McKee


On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a request from a client to get sFTP up and running. It has been a
> while adn the last time I did this both Expect and Tcl were in a .Z
> compressed file. Scott's docs worked has documented. As I could use the
> uncompress cmd and then the tar cmd to get the code installed. They now
> appear to be in .gz format which uncompress can't handle.
>
> What can I use to unzip these to a tar file so I can install them?
>
> Thanks
>
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