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On Windows: You can download a simple command line tool to do this. You can download the tool from here Usage can be found on the website but pasting it here too for convenience: C:\>TarTool.exe Usage : C:\>TarTool.exe sourceFile destinationDirectory C:\>TarTool.exe D:\sample.tar.gz ./ C:\>TarTool.exe sample.tgz temp C:\>TarTool.exe -x sample.tar temp TarTool 2.0 Beta supports bzip2 decompression for files with extensions like tar.bz2 and .bz2 . TarTool -xj sample.tar.bz2 temp or TarTool -j sample.bz2 Download TarTool 2.0 Beta from here Unpack a .txz file on Windows Use the 7zip tool  to unpack a .txz file on windows On Linux: You can use the bzip2 and tar combined to do this… for ex: bzip2 –cd <tar.bz_fileName> | tar –xvf - This will unpack the contents of the tar.bz file Happy Un-Tar-ing

ipconfig : Used to see the IP address and the gateway mask. Can also be used to ipconfig /all : Displays all the available information for a system ipconfig /displaydns : This will display the local dns file ipconfig /flushdns : This command will clear the local dns file systeminfo : Get the operating system information using this command systeminfo /S <systemname> /U <username> : Get the operating system information for a remote system using this command tasklist : Does the same thing that starting a task manager would do…Display a list of tasks running on the system. taskkill /im <imagename> : Kills the process with the image name provided taskkill /pid <processid> : Kills the process with the process id provided type : read a file from command line using type… netstat : You can get to know who/what is getting connected to your system   netstat –a: displays all connection info netstat –b : displays the executable name in the netstat outpu...

Whatever role you are into, this task comes to you eventually where you have to setup your environment! Setting up your classpath/path including... So here is how you can do it! Two ways: Method one - Setting up the path just for the particular session For LINUX: export PATH=$PATH:/home/gvsiri/apache-ant-1.8.2/bin For Windows: set PATH=%PATH%;.;C:\SirishaGV\Software\apache-ant-1.8.2\bin Method two - setting up the path for the profile For Linux: Modify the .bash_profile file For Windows: Change in the environment variables