tgz to gz

By Ren West on 5/17/2004 in Syntaxy

If, for some reason, you have a text file that has been saved as a tarred and gzipped file, use the following to gunzip/untar and gzip on the fly:

tar xvzfO $TARFILE | gzip > ./$NAME.gz

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