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Date:      Sat, 22 Feb 2003 07:02:39 -0800
From:      Saint Aardvark the Carpeted <aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com>
To:        Anil Garg <anilg@niksun.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: new bie (tar command)
Message-ID:  <20030222150239.GG15638@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com>
In-Reply-To: <C2A515E590B43D4BBB9898AAA0710DB76CDA9A@mjoffice.mj.niksun.com>
References:  <C2A515E590B43D4BBB9898AAA0710DB76CDA9A@mjoffice.mj.niksun.com>

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Anil Garg disturbed my sleep to write:
> p.s. i looked earlier at -t, infact i was also trying to use -x with -t.

Logical enough, but not correct.  -t and -x are mutually exclusive.  -t means
"just list the contents"; -x means "extract the contents" (ie, get files out of
the tarball).  The tar command won't let you do both.

Hope this helps,
Hugh
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Saint Aardvark the Carpeted
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