Daily Archives: October 5, 2010

Uncompressing a .tar.gz file on Sun’s release of tar

While trying to uncompress a tar.gz file, if you get a message something like this: tar: z: unknown function modifier Usage: tar {c|r|t|u|x}[BDeEFhilmnopPqTvw@/[0-7]][bfk][X…] You are using a Sun’s release of tar and -z is not a valid option. Instead, try following commands: gunzip file.tar.gz You will get a tar file, run this: tar xf file.tar…