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Custom-Compiling Apache and Subversion | |
| Subject: | Minor tip for systems without a gzip-aware tar | |
| Date: | 2005-07-17 23:39:13 | |
| From: | aristotle | |
Instead of gunzipping the file on disk, decompress it to stdout and pipe the result into tar. That means instead of tar xvzf foo.tar.gz you say gzip -cd foo.tar.gz | tar xvf -. This can usually be abbreviated by using the zcat synonym for gzip -cd where it is present (most systems), yielding zcat foo.tar.gz | tar xvf -.
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