From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 17 16:10:12 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 16:10:09 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from giroc.albury.net.au (giroc.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BFB137B400 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 16:10:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by giroc.albury.net.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBI0A4I77638; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:10:04 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:10:04 +1100 From: Nick Slager To: "Tomlinson, Drew" Cc: "'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)'" Subject: Re: Command Line To Extract Tarball? Message-ID: <20001218111004.B72606@albury.net.au> References: <20001218110720.A72606@albury.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001218110720.A72606@albury.net.au>; from nicks@albury.net.au on Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:07:20AM +1100 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: nicks@giroc.albury.net.au Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Nick Slager (nicks@albury.net.au): > Use the 'f' option to tell tar you're working on a file, eg: > > tar xv dynip_3.00.tar Ooops... Try 'tar xvf dynip_3.00.tar' *damn* Nick -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message