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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ponderous.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Subject: Re: Silliest question of the month: "tar" command Message-ID: <michaelv.757875709@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <59017@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 17:01:49 GMT Lines: 30 In <59017@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> dcalabre@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (David Calabrese) writes: > It seems that a lot of people use "tar" like a generic file >compressor (or perhaps used to.) I've dug up a "tarred" (and >possibly feathered as well, it's difficult to tell) file, and of >course there's not a Unix manual in sight and of course tar refuses >to read from anything except UCSD's tape drives. (The file is >safely in my account on disk already.) > And OF COURSE the help on our system also assumes that you >want nothing other than to read hundreds of meters of tape and if >someone was unfashionable enough to tar a file on disk that's its >your problem... So, what's your question? Are you asking how to use the tar command? If you want to see what's in the file, try this: tar -tf filename | more If you want to actually extract it, go to the desired directory, then: tar -xvf path/filename To get the manual page on tar: man tar -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. VanLoon Project Vincent Systems Staff michaelv@iastate.edu Iowa State University Computation Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------