Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 00:12:11 +0100 From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: Dave Kaufman <daverk@epix.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tarballs, etc. Message-ID: <20011224001211.A637@tisys.org> In-Reply-To: <200112232254.fBNMsj7h026162@lima.epix.net>; from daverk@epix.net on Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 05:54:44PM -0500 References: <200112232254.fBNMsj7h026162@lima.epix.net>
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On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 05:54:44PM -0500, Dave Kaufman stood up and spoke: > 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. The following should work for .tar.gz: tar xzvfp file.tar.gz for tar.bz2: tar xjvfp file.tar.bz2 Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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