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Date:      Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:28:42 +0200
From:      "Jose M. Megias Sanchez" <jms@caja-granada.es>
To:        "Kenneth Chiu" <chiuk@cs.indiana.edu>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Problem extracting files with tar
Message-ID:  <01bde072$15084900$00008282@jms>

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Yes, the leading / was stripped from the file names in my tar archive. When
I use the command
    tar xvfbz root@mulhacen:/dev/nrst0 20
I see the following:
    -r--r--r-- root/wheel     3425 Jul 22 08:16 1998 COPYRIGHT
drwxr-xr-x bin/bin           0 Sep  1 11:44 1998 bin/
-r-xr-xr-x bin/bin       57344 Jul 22 08:10 1998 bin/cat
-r-xr-xr-x bin/bin       45056 Jul 22 08:10 1998 bin/chio
-r-xr-xr-x bin/bin       53248 Jul 22 08:10 1998 bin/chmod
-r-xr-xr-x bin/bin       61440 Jul 22 08:10 1998 bin/cp
-r-xr-xr-x bin/bin      249856 Jul 22 08:10 1998 bin/csh
-r-xr-xr-x bin/bin      139264 Jul 22 08:10 1998 bin/date
-r-xr-xr-x bin/bin       61440 Jul 22 08:10 1998 bin/dd
-r-xr-sr-x bin/operator  53248 Jul 22 08:10 1998 bin/df


    What can I do now?. Thank you.
-----Mensaje original-----
De: Kenneth Chiu <chiuk@cs.indiana.edu>
Para: Jose M. Megias Sanchez <jms@caja-granada.es>
CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Fecha: Lunes 14 de Septiembre de 1998 19:45
Asunto: Re: Problem extracting files with tar


>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.
>>
>>
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