unarchiving .tar files

[Bob Willey]

In article <Oct.17.22.20.51.1990.27139 at pilot.njin.net> dblack at pilot.njin.net (David Alan Black) writes:
>I would be grateful for a quick summary of how I can extract files from a
>tar file on disk.  No tape is involved.
>For the record, I have read TFM, but cannot piece together a command which
>results in anything but a fatal error of one kind or another.
>David Black
>dblack at pilot.njin.net


David:
       We had run into the same problem earlier and requested info
on how to do and several came immediately to my rescue.  Their answer
was that I should have also read the TFM, but to this date I have never
seen the answer there.  Enough of this rambling.

cd to the directory that you want the file to reside into:

   tar xf /usr/spool/uucppublic/download/file.tar

Replace the /usr/spool/....file.tar with your file and directory.
The f option is normally for devices but will work with a file name
specifically.

Hope this helps you out.

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