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Re: decompressing tar.Z files

by BlueLines (Hermit)
on Mar 02, 2001 at 04:43 UTC ( [id://61716]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to decompressing tar.Z files

The other monks are correct in suggesting that the best way to do this is via CPAN, but if for whatever reason you can't install a module, this is how you'd do this in a shell:
[jon@nooky jon]$ zcat foo.tar.Z | tar xvf


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