From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 23 15:15:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (pns.wobline.de [212.68.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D640737B405 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 15:15:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from colt.ncptiddische.net (ppp-187.wobline.de [212.68.69.198]) by mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/tw-20010821) with ESMTP id fBNNEn800302; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 00:14:54 +0100 Received: from tisys.org (poison.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.5]) by colt.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBNNFKX52441; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 00:16:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: (from nils@localhost) by tisys.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBNNCBS00688; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 00:12:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils) Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 00:12:11 +0100 From: Nils Holland To: Dave Kaufman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tarballs, etc. Message-ID: <20011224001211.A637@tisys.org> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Kaufman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200112232254.fBNMsj7h026162@lima.epix.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200112232254.fBNMsj7h026162@lima.epix.net>; from daverk@epix.net on Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 05:54:44PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poison.ncptiddische.net 4.5-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE X-Machine-Uptime: 12:09AM up 38 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 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 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