[bjames]

I’m a Unix newbie myself. Here is what I do.. assume the filed is called file.tar

If the file is copied to your user folder, in my case the user folder is called bjames

Open Unix she’ll and navigate to your user folder where you copied the .tar file to.

Type
cd /user/people/bjames

To untar the file named “file.tar”

Type
Tar -xf file.tar

A folder will be created automatically for the contents of the tar file.

If you have a file called “file.tar.gz”. Which is a zipped tar file

Go to the folder that contains the file as above

Type

gunzip file.tar.gz

It will unzip the file into a tar file

Then untar the file by typing

tar -xf file.tar

Then your done