From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 15 00:19:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA12851 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 00:19:28 -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 AAA12846 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 00:19:27 -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 CAA22590; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 02:19:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 02:18:34 -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: <01bde072$15084900$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 Try: tar xvfbz root@mulhacen:/dev/nrst0 20 'usr/sbin/ppp*' instead of tar xvfbz root@mulhacen:/dev/nrst0 20 '/usr/sbin/ppp*' On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Jose M. Megias Sanchez wrote: > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message