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<p>Created page with &quot;So you have went to that website and downloaded the latest version of your files. But they are in a tar.gz format, How do you extract them to your site. First what is a tar....&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>So you have went to that website and downloaded the latest version of your files. But they are in a tar.gz format, How do you extract them to your site.<br /> <br /> First what is a tar.gz file, this just means that the tar has been compressed.<br /> <br /> Say you want to extract the tar you just download called lastest.tar.gz from wordpress.<br /> <br /> tar -zxvf latest.tar.gz<br /> <br /> * -z : Uncompress the resulting archive with gzip command<br /> * -x : Extract to disk from archive<br /> * -v : Verbose..aka show you what its doing<br /> * -f : Read the archive from the called latest.tar.gz<br /> <br /> By default this will get extracted into your current directory<br /> <br /> What if you want it moved to your html directory<br /> <br /> tar -zxvf latest.tar.gz -C /var/www/html<br /> <br /> What if you just want to view the files in the tar.gz but don't want to extract them yet<br /> <br /> tar -tzvf latest.tar.gz<br /> <br /> * -t : List the contents of the archive</div>

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