From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 13 04:59:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA16565 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 May 1997 04:59:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceberg.anchorage.net. (root@iceberg.anchorage.net [207.14.72.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA16558 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 04:59:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak.anchorage.net (ai-131 [207.14.72.131]) by iceberg.anchorage.net. (8.6.11/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA02992; Tue, 13 May 1997 02:55:47 -0800 Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 03:49:11 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@aak.anchorage.net To: Bernard Courtney cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UN Tar In-Reply-To: <3377B931.244C@bythehand.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 12 May 1997, Bernard Courtney wrote: > 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? man tar ... tar -xzvf file the z is used only if it's gzipped. i would untar it in a tmp directory first, to see how it untarrs - maybe not like you'd want it too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sleep: a sign a caffeine deprivation ... http://www.anchorage.net/~un_x -------------------------------------------------------------------------