Re: [TCLUG:11269] sh

[schewe@tcfreenet.org]

On 17 Dec, Ryan Hankins wrote:
> Rodney Ray wrote:
>> 
>> this is a newbe question..... I just downloaded quake III from
>> quakearena.com but the file is .gz.sh and I'm not sure what the .sh is
>> and how to uncompress the file. I know that it's a script (makeself) but
>> how do you extract the files?
> 
> try: chmod 755 filename.gz.sh; ./filename.gz.sh
> if that doesn't work: mv filename.gz.sh filename.tar.gz; tar zxvf
> filename.tar.gz
> 
That requires the files to start with #!/bin/sh, it might not.  
sh filename.gz.sh 
will work.
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