Subject: Re: tar question
From: Robert Serphillips (rserphillips@austin.rr.com)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2002 - 19:05:16 MST
Try tar -xvf archive.tar
all in one step you can also do
tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz
x is extract
c is create
v is verbose
z means to pipe through gzip or gunzip
f means the file is the next argument on the line
-Rob
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:49:45 -0800 (PST)
Chris Alden <mohotsaucemoproblems@yahoo.com> wrote:
> After using gunzip to extract a tar file from a tar.gz
> archive, how does one use tar, in the command prompt,
> to un-tar the file, thereby creating a fully extracted
> program directory ready to be compiled and run? I
> thought perhaps it was "tar -x archive.tar", but
> apparently that does not work. thanks.
>
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