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Old 08-24-2005
How to get to a file and uncompress it

I did an ftp to copy a tar file from a main server area to the backup server area. I need to get that tar file to uncompress it in backup server. How do I go about it.

Please any suggesstion will be greatly appreciated
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Old 08-25-2005
You can try

tar -xf Filename.tar to extract the original file.
 
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