Tar.exe doing nothing

Tue Jul 4 20:31:00 GMT 2000

gunzip < filename.tar.gz | tar xvf -
That will work with most any version of tar.
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:12:33AM +0200, Jonas Jensen wrote:
> >Well, silly me :-)
> >
> >Now, 2 more questions about that:
> >
> >-What the hell is the purpuse of that feature?
>> Tar used to be commonly used with a tape device. If you don't use the
> -f option it defaults to an arbitrary device for extraction. I assume
> that cygwin defaults to standard input.
>> In case it isn't obvious to you, the Cygwin project did not invent the
> tar program. This tar behavior is far from new. The tar program has
> been a standard part of UNIX for a long long time. Cygwin is a UNIX
> emulation environment, so...
>> >-Is there an easy program to unzip the contents of a .tar.gz file
> >without first using gzip.exe and then tar.exe? Or a good way to set up
> >an alias/script to do this?
>> I sounds like you still aren't reading the "tar --help" output very
> closely.
>> The '-z' option automatically uncompresses an archive before extraction
> or creation:
>> tar -xzf somefile.tar.gz
>> cgf

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