TJS111@psuvm.psu.edu (Thomas J. Snively) (11/16/90)
Recently, I've been getting in to getting cool things for free off the netnews by downloading things and such. I've had mild success, but I'm stuck on this tar thing. Ok, suppose I have a file, foo.foo.tar, ok? The directions that the poster says is "Tar this into your favorite directory...." I can't unarchive anything. I've read the manual on it several times, and can't understand it. If I'm in my home directory, and want to unarchive that whole thing into, say, /stuff, what do I do? Please send e-mail. Thank you very much. -Tom ****************************************************************************** Bitnet : TJS111@psuvm.bitnet Makeshift signature. Internet: TJS111@psuvm.psu.edu No real cool sayings yet. ******************************************************************************
gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) (11/17/90)
To un-tar a file, type "tar -xvf <filename>".
kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) (11/17/90)
In article <1990Nov16.220430.28688@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes: > > To un-tar a file, type "tar -xvf <filename>". On System V, that should be "tar -xovf <filename>" or you'll be in for a nasty surprise :-) Kenneth Herron
s887212@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Stephen Riehm [Romulis]) (11/18/90)
gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes: > To un-tar a file, type "tar -xvf <filename>". very dangerous practice!!! considering that the tar was created by someone else on a different machine.. it should be mandatory to use -o (ownership) flag. I learnt this the hard way some time back when I untarred a directory without -o and the creator only had permission set to himself, hence I couldnt touch the files at all.. couldnt even remove the evidence :-) SYSOPs can be wonderfull people at times :-) therefor I recommend: tar -xfvo <filename> ============================================================================ Romulis [Stephen Riehm] Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, (124 Latrobe St., Melbourne.) s887212@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au Australia. @>---`--,--( Still Stuck on the wrong side of the deep pink sea )--.--'---<@ ======================< Insert Usual Disclaimer >===========================
ralfi@pemstgt.PEM-Stuttgart.de (Ralf Holighaus) (11/21/90)
TJS111@psuvm.psu.edu (Thomas J. Snively) writes: >Recently, I've been getting in to getting cool things for free off the >netnews by downloading things and such. I've had mild success, but I'm >stuck on this tar thing. >Ok, suppose I have a file, foo.foo.tar, ok? The directions that the >poster says is "Tar this into your favorite directory...." >I can't unarchive anything. I've read the manual on it several times, >and can't understand it. >If I'm in my home directory, and want to unarchive that whole thing into, >say, /stuff, what do I do? 1. Change in the desired directory. 2. There may be two possibilities: 2a) The file foo.foo.tar is a tar archive file, that means it contains files 2b) The file foo.foo.tar is on an archive disk As you downloaded the file, i suppose case 2a) will be the right thing. 3. For extracting the files of the 2a) archive file, simply use tar xvf - < foo.foo.tar It tells tar to extract files, but read from the standard input. Rgds Ralf. -- | Programmentwicklung fuer Microcomputer | Ralf U. Holighaus | | PO-Box 810165 Vaihinger Strasse 49 | >> PEM Support << | | D-7000 Stuttgart 80 West Germany | holighaus@PEM-Stuttgart.de | | VOICE: x49-711-713045 FAX: x49-721-713047 | ..!unido!pemstgt!ralfi |
shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) (11/22/90)
s887212@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Stephen Riehm [Romulis]) writes: >therefor I recommend: >tar -xfvo <filename> ... except that not all implementations support the -o (set ownership to that of extractor) option. SCO's Xenix and UNIX, for example, do not support it.
jmm@eci386.uucp (John Macdonald) (11/22/90)
In article <6277@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s887212@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Stephen Riehm [Romulis]) writes: | |therefor I recommend: |tar -xfvo <filename> | I recommend the same general practice, but I suggest writing it as: tar -xvfo <filename> ^^ The "fo" is an easy way of commenting on the competence of the person who made the default mechanism to be the choice that cannot be recovered from. -- Cure the common code... | John Macdonald ...Ban Basic - Christine Linge | jmm@eci386