From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 14 10:15:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA07488 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 10:15:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from silky.cs.indiana.edu (silky.cs.indiana.edu [129.79.253.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA07483 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 10:15:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chiuk@cs.indiana.edu) Received: (from chiuk@localhost) by silky.cs.indiana.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7/IUCS_2.18) id MAA20854; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 12:14:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 12:14:44 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Chiu X-Sender: ken@localhost To: "Jose M. Megias Sanchez" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem extracting files with tar In-Reply-To: <01bddfe3$1e96a000$00008282@jms> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is it because the leading / was stripped from the file names in your tar archive? On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Jose M. Megias Sanchez wrote: > Hello, After update my system to FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE I obtained a copy > with tar to tape with the following command: > tar --block-compress -z -c -f root@mulhacen:/dev/nrst0 20 /* > > How do I can extract some files from the tape?, I'll try the command: > tar xvfbz root@mulhacen:/dev/nrst0 20 '/usr/sbin/ppp*' > and I obtain the following answer: > tar: /usr/sbin/ppp* not found in archive > > Could someone help me?. Thanks in advance. > > > > 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