ironing our pants into the universe

I use MacOSX . By default, I use .ZIP compression or .DMG images (Death to .SIT files). Every once in a while I have to administer a Linux box and I run into a TAR or a TAR.GZ file, but I alway forget how to uncompress it. As a favour to myself, and to avoid searching for the term "How do I unzip a TAR.GZ file?" I'm jotting, this down for all future generations too lazy to read the man page.

TAR is a compression technology used to create a Tape ARchive files. The resulting file is known as a tarball. To uncompress it use:

tar xvf filename.tar

If the tarball has also been gzipped, it will have the extension TAR.GZ and you can use the following command:

tar xvfz filename.tar.gz

Roll credits:

x = extract files from an archive
v = verbosely list files processed
f = use archive file or device F
z = filter the archive through gzip

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While upgrading, I accidentally deleted my data directory. I am thoroughly embarrassed. This means things like photos and avatars have gone missing. Let this be a lesson to do backups. The same kind of lesson you get when being kicked in the genitals. Hopefully the data files will be recovered in the next few days.

Edit: The photos have returned. Horray! Thank you Network Redux, world's greatest web hosting company.