Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 18:57:24 -0700 (PDT) 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 Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970513185627.26359A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970513034740.1034I-100000@aak.anchorage.net>
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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. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sleep: a sign a caffeine deprivation ... http://www.anchorage.net/~un_x > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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