It means decompress a compressed archive... not all tars support this... ----- Original Message ----- From: <dale.w.lance@mail.sprint.com> To: <bill@libc.org>; <zope@zope.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 9:14 AM Subject: RE: [Zope] How to upgrade to 2.3 (no differential install?)
just checked man of tar - no "z" was listed. what exactly is definition of "z"? I assume it might be "ignore top level directory"?
Dale
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two steps too many ;) Just tar -xvzf the original file,no need to copy and then delete the copy. /me ducks
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