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[Derek D. Martin]

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At some point hitherto, pll at lanminds.com hath spake thusly:
> gzip does not extract files from a gzipped file.  It simply 
> decompresses the file.  These files are all tar.gz files, which means 
> that you must first decompress them, then un-archive them using the 
> tar command.  Try this:
> 
> 	tar -ztvf xmms*.tar.gz

Note that if there are multiple filenames that match xmms*.tar.gz,
this command will not work as you might expect.  It will look in the
first file that matches the wildcard, and try to extract (or in this
case, to list) the rest of the files that match the wild card from
that first file.

If you want to actually list all the files in all the archives, you'd
need to do something more like this:

  for file in xmms*.tar.gz; do; tar -tzvf $file; done

The command given by Paul above will most likely result in error
messages about the other files not existing in the tar archive.


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