Previously, we noted how you could use a utility such as OpenUp to decompress the pax.gz file in an Installer document, thus allowing you to see everything that gets installed before you actually ...

Learn how to easily extract content from compressed Linux files — without having to memorize a suite of syntactical options ...

To extract a gzip compressed tar archive we need to add the z argument to identify that the archive uses the gzip compression method. 2. Delete the test_directory folder. rm -r test_directory 3.

Switch first to a normal (non-root)user, than extract the tarfile.<BR>If you extract as normal user, all extracted files will get the user and group id's of that normal user.

O Wise Ones:I compiled a kernel with /proc/config.gz support (CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y and CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y). I accidentally nuked everything from /usr/src/linux except vmlinux. Does anyone know ...