How do you unarchive with TAR?

[Stephen Riehm [Romulis]]

gordon at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:


>	To un-tar a file, type "tar -xvf <filename>".

very dangerous practice!!! considering that the tar was created by someone
else on a different machine.. it should be mandatory to use -o (ownership)
flag. I learnt this the hard way some time back when I untarred a directory
without -o and the creator only had permission set to himself, hence I
couldnt touch the files at all.. couldnt even remove the evidence :-)
SYSOPs can be wonderfull people at times :-)

therefor I recommend:
tar -xfvo <filename>

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