Comments on: Decompress and extract a tgz or tar.gz archive in a single step

By: JEYAPRAKASH

JEYAPRAKASH — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:49:51 +0000

BOSS VERY VERY THANK IT’S VERY VERY HELPFUL FOR ME
THAKS ONCE AGIAN

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 May 2011 04:39:00 +0000

Thanks for adding that updated information.

By: Shadur

Shadur — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:37:00 +0000

You’re not allowed to create a directory bin/cob32 in /ITS/release/hawai.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:10:00 +0000

Your original method was correct. The tar commands on AIX, HP-UX and Solaris do not accept the options z or j.

For those lazy GNU people, you can actually omit the letter too, as GNU tar will work out what compression algorithm was used. But the original post done this is the most portable and professonal way

By: Cyril

Cyril — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:42:00 +0000

I am under Solaris 10. tar command still has no “z” option.

Your tip comes in handy! Thanks.

By: perk

perk — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:15:00 +0000

exactelly true ur the best……

By: JayJay

JayJay — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0000

Try typing sudo before gzip

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:21:00 +0000

i got following error when i am trying to run the above command.

/ITS/release/hawai > gzip -dc sx51_wp4_hp_itanium_dev.tar.gz | tar xf -
tar: ./bin/cob32 – cannot create
tar: ./bin/cob64 – cannot create
tar: ./bin/cobffnd32 – cannot create
tar: ./bin/cobffnd64 – cannot create
tar: ./bin/cobffnd32_t – cannot create
tar: ./bin/cobffnd64_t – cannot create
directory checksum error

By: Quinn McHenry

Quinn McHenry — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:48:00 +0000

Oh, yeah, I’ll admit that command is easier, although back in 2003 it only seemed to work in some linux distros. I was using Solaris (probably 7 at the time) and that tar didn’t have that cool option. I don’t have a Solaris box handy now, but I would be surprised if that hadn’t crept its way in yet.

Should be noted that ‘j’ in place of ‘z’ in your command will extract a bz2 archived tar file. J. Really. I guess all the appropriate letters were on vacation.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:38:00 +0000

this is easier:

# tar xvzf target.tar.gz