How to tar a .gz folder

[dido]

Hello friends,

I uploaded a .sql dump of a DB and need to extract it.Unfortunately the code does not seems to be working

Code:

tar -zxvf file.sql.gz

So what am asking here is that what is the command for doing this


many thanks..as always

[Reegan]

In order to compress a file or folder do this command.in this instance,I am tarring my web directory:

The Command should look like some thing:

tar -pczf web.tar.gz web/

Now to untar the same command:

tar xvfz web.tar.gz

[Zecho]

Did you got it in your Home Folder? Extract it to a folder. Go into the folder. Click on the Shell Script that says Firefox underneath. It should begin this way:
gunzip <filename.tar.gz>
tar xvf <filename.tar>
./configure

and making the install

[opaper]

My learning is that .gz usually just denotes gzip. .tar.gz is for a file that was tarred and gzipped.I think .tar.gz and .tgz are two interchangeable extensions for the same file format - a gzipped tar file. So changing the name of the file should not be an issue.You may try alternative way of gunzip file.sql.gz