The Easy Way to Extract Tar Archives
The Easy Way to Extract Tar Archives
New to Linux? Don’t feel like using File Roller to extract archives? Despite everything you rad on the internet, tar (the tape archiver – that why you have to tell it you want to use a file with -f) doesn’t need you to specify archive file formats any more. To extract a file, simply:
tar -xf archive.tgz
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Benefits: No stupid messages from a computer asking for information the computer can determine on its own.
Works in: Recent distros (last year) only
Drawbacks: It’s still to early to use this in a lot of distros.
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