Geting gzip to work

Seems I cannot unzip tar.gz files in RH

I try to decompress but it just removes the gz

gzip -d myfile.tar.gz

there are no directoryes or files extracted and the origional file myfile.tar.gz now becomes just myfile.tar

Why is this? What am I missing?

Hmm nothing. You're only unzipping the archive, not untarring it. Try

tar xzvf archive.tar.gz

at the prompt and it should work. In the case of bzip2 [.bz2] try

tar xjvf archive.tar.bz2

Hope it helps!

That worked. I had read part of the man page for gzip and some made sence but I guess I thought decompress would unpack it. So instead of using gzip i guess I would use tar.

I realy apreciate the help.

you can also view gzipped or bzipped files without decompressing with gzcat bzcat or zmore