Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 18:55:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: Joachim Kuebart <joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de> To: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Bernard Courtney <bc@bythehand.com> Subject: Re: UN Tar Message-ID: <XFMail.970513203236.joki@jocki.domestic.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970513034740.1034I-100000@aak.anchorage.net>
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On 13-May-97 at 11:49:11 Steve Howe wrote:
>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.
A better way to do this is to use "tar tzf foo.tar.gz | {more|less}" to see the
directories contained in the archive. Saves you the step of erasing the
tmp-extract ;-)
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