Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:22:26 -0800 From: Unfurl <unfurl@dub.net> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: un-tarring a file? Message-ID: <19990204082226.A37139@dub.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990204164224.24224A-100000@maciek.gv.edu.pl>; from Andrzej Szydlo on Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 04:48:38PM %2B0100 References: <C0DF749972A2D111AD4F00A0C995F231183A0B@PBSPDC> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990204164224.24224A-100000@maciek.gv.edu.pl>
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In the future you dont have to gunzip it first. One of the features of
the GNU based tar is builtin gzip support. This would have worked from
the start:
"tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz" or "tar -zxvf filename.tgz"
It will work on either extension. The "v" is for verbose and shows you
the file names as they come out of the tarball.
Another handy command is:
"tar -tf filename.tar" or "tar -ztf filename.tar.gz"
The "t" makes tar list all the files but not actually untar them ;)
Happy tarring.
-Bill
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 04:48:38PM +0100, Andrzej Szydlo wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, ira miller wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > Sorry to bother everyone again, but I have followed the instructions
> > in the man pages and can't get this to work. I downloaded netscape
> > navigator standalone, the file name is:
> >
> >
> > navigator-v408-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar
> >
> > It was also with a .gz, but I was able to unzip that with the gunzip
> > utility, following the instructions. Now I have the tar file, and I've been
> > trying the following:
> >
> > Eco1# tar -x navigator-v408-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar
> >
>
> You need
>
> tar xf filename.tar
>
> Andrzej
>
>
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