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  • 1.  tar file

    Posted Thu December 07, 2006 10:15 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Dear,

    i am using aix 5.3, i recieve a CD-ROM that have a tar file '123.z'. i want extract th file from CD-ROM to tmp directory, What command should i use? becuae i try to use tar -x 123.z but still not work, please help
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  • 2.  Re: tar file

    Posted Thu December 07, 2006 11:02 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Files ending in .Z (normally upper case) are compressed unix files. First uncompress and then you can untar. You can pipe and do this, but to see the tar file use uncompress abc.Z. This should probably be abc.tar.Z?
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