Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 12:30:23 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: "Jose M. Megias Sanchez" <jms@caja-granada.es>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem extracting files with tar Message-ID: <19980914123023.A15668@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <01bddfe3$1e96a000$00008282@jms>; from "Jose M. Megias Sanchez" on Mon Sep 14 15:25:19 GMT 1998 References: <01bddfe3$1e96a000$00008282@jms>
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In the last episode (Sep 14), Jose M. Megias Sanchez said: > 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. Tar strips leading /'s when it creates archives. Try extracting "usr/sbin/ppp*" and see what happens. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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