Untar

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To extract from a tar archive. transitive

    "I untarred (and ungzipped) that file using the following command: […]"

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tar

Example

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"I untarred (and ungzipped) that file using the following command: […]"

Etymology

From un- + tar.

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