Very Computer

Folks,

I downloaded a tgz file and untar it according to the writer's
instruction

tar -xvfz aaa.tgz

This gave me the following error

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tar: z: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
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I did this

tar -zxvf aaa.tgz or tar xvfz aaa.tgz

I was able to expand it. Now the problem is there is an executable file
in the folder won't run. I checked the permission

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-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root      1737189 Mar 26  1998 abcdefg
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it seems everything is OK. Does anybody have clue on what happened? I am
pretty new on Linux. Thanks.

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: I was able to expand it. Now the problem is there is an executable file
: in the folder won't run. I checked the permission

: -----
: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root      1737189 Mar 26  1998 abcdefg
: -----
where did you put it? Is that dir in your PATH
type this to see:
env

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You may be unaware that, unlike MS-DOS, the current directory is
not automatically part of the search path.  You can explicitly
add it to the path but there are security reasons for not doing
so.  To run an executable file (e.g., abcdefg) in the current
directory, enter this command:
  ./abcdefg

Let us know if this solves your problem.

The file is probably in the current directory.
To run it:
./abcdefg

Unlike DOS, it doesn't check the current directory first, then
the PATH. In fact, Linux ONLY checks the PATH. This is for
security reasons. (Linux is, after all, a multi-user operating
system.)