Total Noob - Whats an .SH file

[Jess Maloney]

I just installed Mandrake 8.0 on my PC. dual booting with XP. I am a total linux newbie. I have downloaded the Q3 demo and the file is something like Q3test.1.11.blah.gz.sh

How the frig do I extract this bad boy? I know its a compressed file, but dont know how to extract it. null (http://null)

[Silent Bob]

try sh Quake3.blah.gz.sh hopefully that should work.

If that leaves you with a .gz file, then you will need to type gunzip filename.gz

[ 04 September 2001: Message edited by: Silent Bob ]

[stiles]

sounds like someone got messed up when they made that file. .sh is usually a shell script (nothing more than a text file), and .gz is a compressed file. Try to zcat that file and see if it's readable (I'm guessing it should be). If it's readable like that I'd just zcat Q3test.1.11.blah.gz.sh > Q3test.1.11.blah.sh .