tar archives.

[Shaun Oliver]

thanks for all your help chuck geoff and gregory and all others I've
extracted the file and compiled it..
remember I'm working via telnet at the moment I'm accessing an external
linux shell but no metter I'll have my own 1 day hehehe..
Shaun
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh at mhonline.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: tar archives.


>
> Good points, Geoff -
>
> Another way to preview a.tar.gz or a .tgz file is to use the viewer 'less'
> - it is smart enough to show you what is in the archive.
>
> Chuck
>
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Shawn -
> > > The parameters do not need the leading '-', and ordinarily you would
use
> > > four letters The first one is either 'x' or 'c' for "extract" or
"create",
> > > the next letter is either 'z' or 'y' for "gz" or "bz2", the third one
is
> > > 'v' for "verbose", and the fourth one is 'f' meaning that the filename
> > > follows. So what you want is:
> > >
> > > tar xzvf filename.tar.gz
> >
> > A couple of comments.  The -v option can get quite annoying, especially
if
> > you're unpacking something big.  If you omit it, it will unpack it
> > silently, which is what I do.  Also, I'd rather know what it's unpacking
> > before I do it, not as I do it,  hense I use:
> >
> > tar -ztf filename.tar.gz |more
> >
> > This is useful as tar files usually create a subdirectory, and you want
to
> > be sure that it's not going to be a directory that already exists as the
> > contents of the tar file will mingle with any files already there.  I
did
> > this to a linux kernel source tree once and it made a nice mess.
> >
> > For the bz2 flag, this varies from version to version of tar.  My
version
> > has I (that's capital I).  Apparently, some other implelementations use
> > this for something else, so recent versions of tar use j.  Check your
tar
> > manpage or the built-in command help (tar --help) if you wish to unpack
bz2
> > files.
> >
> > Geoff.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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