Re: Unix Tar

From: Niese-Petersen (Tenp@cris.com)
Date: 10/28/96


On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Ebon Mists wrote:

> > 
> > Hay-
> > 
> >    Can any one tell me what to type to untar a file in unix?  Im am still
> > new 
> > to it, and have never done this before.  To untar circle30bpl11.tar I tried
> > typeing
> > tar -x circle30bpl11.tar and tar x circle30bpl11.tar and some other
> > variations.
> >    But nothing seems to go through, keeps tellin me 'no such file or dir'
> 
> tar -xfv <filename>
> 
> I hate tar, it's so un-user firendly. Also, if that xfv isnt in that order,
> it doesnt work either. Go figure.

Wrong.. -vxf works too :)

---
Erik Niese-Petersen
Aka Quint The typo God
Realms of Darkness IMP


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