Re: Extracting Files and / or Copy files

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Jan Sneep wrote:
I'm trying to extract a file from a tar.gz file which I downloaded onto
my desktop.

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So how do I either ... login as "root" ... or give Extract sudo
permissions ... or what is the equivalent to the old DOS copy
command???

If you want to login as root, use

sudo su

or if you only want to execute one command

sudo <command>

is easier. In your case of extracting a .tar.gz file use

sudo tar xfz filename.tar.gz

The equivalent to the DOS copy command is cp -- have a look at

man cp

to find out how to use it.


Nils

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