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R-Kite
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 Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 12:20 am Post subject: Can't untar something... |
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I cannot untar something... I try tar -x something.tar.gz and the shell jumps to a new line and i wait and wait and wait and nothing happens, even as root. I tried gzip -d, then it is something.tar then tried again, nothing happens  |
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mike4148
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Joined: 09 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 12:24 am Post subject: |
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In brief:
| Code: | | tar -xf something.tar |
Basically, what you saw was tar waiting for you to, essentially, "type in" the file contents (it reads the standard input by default). Use the "-f" option to specify the file you want to untar. Read about this and many other useful options in man tar.
Probably the most common tar commandline in the world is
| Code: | | tar -xzvf something.tar.gz |
The "z" option tells tar to use gzip to decompress the file first, and the "v" option tells tar to be verbose -- that is, it displays the name of each file as it is extracted. |
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Voltago
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| Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 12:25 am Post subject: |
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For archiv.tar.gz, type:
| Code: | | tar -xzf archiv.tar.gz |
for archiv.tar.bz2, type:
| Code: | | tar -xjf archiv.tar.bz2 |
The -f switch is for 'input file', otherwise tar expects input via a pipe like this:
| Code: | | cat archiv.tar.gz | tar -xf |
G'Night!
<edit>Hey, mike4148, that's MY noob, I saw him first!  </edit> |
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