Very basic request

[Madison Kelly]

Patrick wrote:
> If anybody has a moment I would appreciate an answer to a very, very basic 
> question. I have downloaded and saved a file called "thunderbird 
> 0.8-j686-linux-gtik2+xft.tar.gz". How should I phrase the command to unzip 
> it? Alternatively, I am using SuSe 9.1 personal. Is there a program to do the 
> unzipping? I have not been able to find one.
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$ tar -xvzf thunderbird 0.8-j686-linux-gtik2+xft.tar.gz

Be in the directory that you want the files extracted within.

-x = extract, v = verbose, z = un(g)zip, f = file to extract

hope that helps!

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