Untar on Solaris

Question

I'm using a Sun Sparc System, aka Solaris. I have a .tar.gz file, and I can't figure out how to untar it. The command I usually use doesn't work:

tar -xzvf file.tar.gz 

Anybody know how to do this? I can't be an answer anywhere!

Answer 1

You have to gunzip then untar on Solaris. It should come with GNU tar:

gtar xzvf somefile.tar.gz

if that doesn't work:

gunzip -c somefile.tar.gz |tar xvf -

Answer 2

For .bzip2 files I used the following procedure:

bunzip2 filename.tar.bz2

This will remove the bz2 extension.

Then

tar -xvf filename.tar

-v only for verbose mode.