From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 17 16:53:43 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 16:53:41 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC75437B402 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 16:53:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0G5Q00M01NT1MX@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 16:53:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from bigdaddy ([165.66.11.100]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0G5Q00NP0NT0TY@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 16:53:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 16:53:32 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: Command Line To Extract Tarball? In-reply-to: <20001218111004.B72606@albury.net.au> To: 'Nick Slager' Cc: "'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)'" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the help! -----Original Message----- From: Nick Slager [mailto:nicks@albury.net.au] Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 4:10 PM To: Tomlinson, Drew Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)' Subject: Re: Command Line To Extract Tarball? 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message