What is a tarball? 2

[jeanpierre]

Very new to Linux and am getting swamped with terminologies.

Is a tarball a compressed folder?

If there is a file with the following name "anyfile.tar.gz"

Do I first have to unzipp this file? In RedHat what would the commands be?

Thanks/Merci

JP

 

[hads]

Hey there,

newbie to newbie help here

A tar file is an archive e.g you can put 100's of files into it to make it easier to mvoe round etc. It isn't compressed though. - These fave a .tar extension usually and can be extacted with 'tar -xf somefile.tar'

A gzip file iz a compressed file, any file. These can be decompressed with 'gzip -d somefile.gz'

So putting this together, lots of things are distributed as gzipped tar files e.g. somefile.tar.gz or less commonly somefile.tgz. You can either go through the steps above to decompress/extract it or a shortcut is 'tar -xvzf somefile.tar.gz' where -v is cerbose and x is extract and z is to pass it through qzip to decompress it.

For more info on this try 'man gzip' and 'man tar' or 'man anything-you-want-to-find-out-aout'

Hope this helps and someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

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[hads]

Darn, sorry about the spelling I think I need some more sleep!


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[hads]

Haha, I didn't realise I had had that many beers lastnite

I hope its partially ledgible to everyone.

P.S Cheers (and sorry) to whoever edited my last post.
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