TAR on 3b1
Tom Kelly
tom at sco.COM
Fri Jun 28 22:09:29 AEST 1991
In article <136 at morwyn.UUCP>, forrie at morwyn.UUCP (Forrie Aldrich) writes
about problems with
> |> zcat file.tar.Z | tar xvf -
> |>
In <57141 at rphroy.UUCP> tkacik at hobbes.cs.gmr.com (Tom Tkacik CS/50) writes:
> The tar on the 3b1 (like all SYSV tar's) does not make you owner of
> the files by default. To do this you must include -o:
>
> zcat file.tar.Z | tar xvof -
>
> Do you mean that:
>
> uncompress file.tar.Z
> tar xvf file.tar
>
> does work? The above will not fix it then. I have never seen this work
> if the above did not also work. What error message is tar giving you?
I have seen the behaviour that Forrie has complained about. There
is no message from tar, it just hangs. (This problem is independent
of the ownership problem, which is solved with -o as Tom said).
I don't know if the problem is with the pipe, or tar's handling of
standard input, but I suspect the pipe. I have largely switched
to cpio, and find that it works fine with a pipe.
Tom Kelly (scocan!ancill!tom)
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