By Kevin S on

Hi Everyone,

I've been unzipping and using .cgi(perl) scripts for a while now but for
the life of me can't get a grip on untarring(extracting) .gz files so I
can work with them.

I've downloaded the drupal.tar but can't access and/or
modify the files using my current zip program.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Have A Great One,

Kevin "druple rules!" Scott ;0

PS

I hope this made sense :=)

Comments

cherylchase’s picture

cherylchase commented

tar.gz is a standard format for unix. It's a tar archive, compressed with gzip. If you have gnu tar, you don't need to uncompress it; tar -ztvf drupal.tar.gz will show you the contents; tar -zxvf will extract the contents into the current directory.

Gzip is at http://www.gzip.org/; the page lists several alternatives for extracting .gz files on Windows.

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sepeck commented

http://drupal.org/node/8592#comment-13204

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