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| wiki:tar [2011/05/11 02:28] – [.rar] Guy | wiki:tar [2011/08/07 00:23] (current) – [tinycore.gz, and microcore.gz] Guy | ||
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| - | ====== Extract tgz, tar.gz, tbz, tar.bz2, and tar.xz | + | ====== Extract |
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| + | If the file is owned by root, you may need to use sudo. | ||
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| + | ==== tgz, tar.gz, tbz, tar.bz2, and tar.xz ==== | ||
| To extract a tgz, tar.gz, tbz, tar.bz2, or tar.xz file, open the terminal and type | To extract a tgz, tar.gz, tbz, tar.bz2, or tar.xz file, open the terminal and type | ||
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| tar -xvf filename</ | tar -xvf filename</ | ||
| - | If the file is owned by root, you may need to use sudo. | ||
| - | ==== Other File Types ==== | + | ==== .bz2 ==== |
| - | ==== .zip ==== | + | < |
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| ==== .gz ==== | ==== .gz ==== | ||
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| - | ==== .bz2 ==== | + | Note: Files such as tinycore.gz and microcore.gz are different. See below. |
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| ==== .rar ==== | ==== .rar ==== | ||
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| + | ==== .xz ==== | ||
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| ==== .Z ==== | ==== .Z ==== | ||
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| - | ==== .xz ==== | + | ==== .zip ==== |
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| ==== .7z ==== | ==== .7z ==== | ||
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| .tlz is equivalent to .tar.lz | .tlz is equivalent to .tar.lz | ||
| .txz is equivalent to .tar.xz | .txz is equivalent to .tar.xz | ||
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| + | ==== tinycore.gz and microcore.gz ==== | ||
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| + | To extract files such as tinycore.gz and microcore.gz, | ||
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| + | zcat tinycore.gz | sudo cpio -i -H newc -d</ | ||
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| + | For more information, | ||
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| + | ==== .deb ==== | ||
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| + | To extract a .deb file, use | ||
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| + | ar vx filename.deb | ||
| + | tar -xzvf data.tar.gz</ | ||
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| + | Another option is to use | ||
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| + | ar p filename.deb data.tar.gz | tar xz</ | ||
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| + | ==== .rpm ==== | ||
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| + | To extract an .rpm file, use | ||
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| + | < | ||
| + | rpm2cpio filename.rpm | cpio -vid</ | ||
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