From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 23 15: 2:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16CA937B417 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 15:02:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from SAGEONE (adsl-64-219-21-136.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [64.219.21.136]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA05970; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 17:02:22 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20011223170219.01691728@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 17:02:19 -0600 To: daverk@epix.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: tarballs, etc. In-Reply-To: <200112232254.fBNMsj7h026162@lima.epix.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You need to add the -f switch for "file".... #tar -xf At 05:54 PM 12.23.2001 -0500, Dave Kaufman wrote: >ok, how do i uncompress a tarball? when i use tar -x.... i get a message >about not being able to initialize the device sa0. i presume it's looking for >a tape drive. per the help, if i try to filter through bzip2 or unbzip2 or >ungzip i get the same thing. i'm sure this is very simple but i'm not finding >it. > >have two files i want to undo. one is .tar.bz2 the other is a .tar.gz. > >all help is much appreciated. > >and happy holidays to all who are celebrating at this time of year. >Dave > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message