Using tar

[Gregory Nowak]

Sorry about that, I forgot the f option in my post, Geoff is correct here.
Greg


On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 07:30:51AM +1000, gshang at uq.net.au wrote:
> 
> > I then went to the directory and tried tar -x filename and heard
> >nothing.  Only control-z or was it -c worked to get me back to the prompt.
> 
> You almost got it.  You want:
> 
> tar -xf filename
> 
> Note that many tar files are gzipped as well (i.e. they're tar.gz files), 
> so you would need
> 
> tar -zxf filename
> 
> for these.  Also note that most tar files have their own subdir in them so 
> they'll unpack underneath where you are.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
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