From: Vesa-Pekka Palmu (vessu@dlc.fi)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 18:15:56 CEST
> > With tar.gz and other "tarballs" I mormaly use "cat
> > something.tar.gz| gunzip| tar -x -" I know that this isn't the optimal
> > command, but thats what I remember and find easy to use..
> >
>
> I think it is optimal, because gunzip has no chance to expand the
> "tarball" in place. So after installation the archiv is still pretty
> small (and original).
And I don't have to remember any switches for gunzip and there is
no need to first gunzip and then "untar" I just like to get things
done in one commend (even made a script;untarb; wich runs that
command for suplied file)
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