Re: Command lines
From: Rodrick Brown (rodrick.brown_at_gmail.com)
Date: 08/06/05
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Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 17:45:03 GMT
"David H" <davidh@davidh.dav> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm a total beginner with Unix, so apologies if this is the wrong group
> for
> my question (feel free to point me in the direction of the right one).
>
> I run a website, and want to unzip a perl module with a tar.gz extension.
> I
> can upload the file, but can't uncompress it.
>
> I'm using the Windows MS-Dos prompt on my PC to FTP into my space. I can
> do
> things like make directories using 'mkdir', but it returns 'invalid
> command'
> when I try to use 'gzip' or 'gunzip'.
>
> I'm obviously doing something very basic wrong, but I don't know what. Can
> somebody point me in the direction of a tutorial or instructions that'll
> steer me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
$ tar xvf - file.tar.gz | tar xvf -
enjoy!
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