GNUWin32 Tools Versions

GNUWin32_Tools_Versions.txt

tar (tar from GNUWin32)
$ & "C:\PFiles_x86\PT\GnuWin32\bin\tar.exe" --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13

Copyright (C) 1988, 92,93,94,95,96,97,98, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.

tar (from msysgit),
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.22
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.

gunzip (gzip from GNUWin32)

$ & "C:\PFiles_x86\PT\GnuWin32\bin\gzip.exe" --version
gzip 1.3.12
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1993 Jean-loup Gailly.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Jean-loup Gailly.

gzip from msysgit,
$ gzip --version
gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)
Compilation options: DIRENT SYS_UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H NO_CHOWN PROTO ASMV


$ & "C:\PFiles_x86\PT\GnuWin32\bin\gzip.exe" --version
gzip 1.3.12
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1993 Jean-loup Gailly.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Jean-loup Gailly.

$ & "C:\PFiles_x86\PT\GnuWin32\bin\bzip2.exe" --version
bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor.  Version 1.0.5, 10-Dec-2007.

   Copyright (C) 1996-2007 by Julian Seward.

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms set out in the LICENSE file, which is included
   in the bzip2-1.0.5 source distribution.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   LICENSE file for more details.

bzip2.exe: I won't write compressed data to a terminal.
bzip2.exe: For help, type: `bzip2.exe --help'.


Some gzip and tar example commands,
$ cd "F:\Sourcecodes\python\spring-2015\clickstream"
$ Copy-Item .\clickstream-data.tar.gz .\clickstream-data-ex.tar.gz
& "C:\PFiles_x86\PT\GnuWin32\bin\gzip.exe" -d .\clickstream-data-ex.tar.gz
& "C:\PFiles_x86\PT\GnuWin32\bin\tar.exe" -xvf .\clickstream-data-ex.tar