[PLUG] Tarball installation

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu Jul 18 23:12:06 UTC 2002


On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Stephen Liu wrote:

> >gzip -cd xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf -
> 
> What is the '-' (minus sign) after xvf for

  It means "standard input". In the context of the above command, it first
gzips the directory then pipes the result to tar. tar takes its input from
standard input; that is, direct from the gzip operation.

Rich





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