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On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:30:13PM -0600, paulr wrote:
> Just be sure that your boot/root rescue disk
> has the GNU tar version, so that you can gunzip
> and extract in one step. It's a bitch having
> to gunzip to disk, and then restoring from a
> possibly huge tar file.
gzcat </cdrom/something.tar.gz | tar x
Or, IIRC, "gunzip -d" instead of gzcat (which is just a link to gunzip, but
which might not exist on a rescue disk).
<fruity salesman-announcer voice>
You'll never have to put with huge decompressed tarchives ever again!
</fruit>
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