Very basic request

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, 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.

filename="thunderbird 0.8-j686-linux-gtik2+xft.tar.gz"
tar xvzf "$filename"

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