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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net>
cc: Bernard Courtney <bc@bythehand.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: UN Tar
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On Tue, 13 May 1997, 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.

If you want to see how it untars, replace the 'x' with a 't'.  This shows
you where it would untar the files without actually untarring them -- much
faster.

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> 



 Ben

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