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Date:      Mon, 12 May 1997 18:37:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
To:        Bernard Courtney <bc@bythehand.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UN Tar
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970512183638.8856A-100000@luke.cpl.net>
In-Reply-To: <3377B931.244C@bythehand.com>

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> HI all,
> 
> Quick question- what is the command to un tar a local file?  eg. I have
> qmail in the /var directory, I want to extract it to the /var directory-
> what is the command?

Try tar xvf filename.tar. If it ends in .gz do tar xvfz filename.tar.gz.






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