Tar Command
April 12, 2005 Posted by KP
Tar can detect an archive with gz compression and extract the files properly, I used to call gunzip first 
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Example
# tar czvf backup.tar.gz *
Extract the archive:
# tar xvf backup.tar.gz
How I did before:
# gunzip dv backup.tar.gz
# tar xvf backup.tar
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