Thanks Don, Stephen At 04:19 PM 7/18/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Stephen Liu wrote: > > > > Hi Jason, > > > > At 09:58 AM 7/18/2002 -0700, you wrote: > > >Isn't the - for stdin? > > > > > >Like this > > >gzip -cd xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf - > > > > What is the '-' (minus sign) after xvf for > > > >It signifies the file to read from is "standard input".