How do I un-tar something?
Flyck
mdame at uceng.UC.EDU
Fri May 4 23:40:06 AEST 1990
In article <788 at unicorn.WWU.EDU> n8743196 at unicorn.WWU.EDU (jeff wandling) writes:
>I saw a poster on this and tried it but I still haven't been sucessful.
>I'd like to un-tar a file. Just how do I do it?
Try tar -xvf <file.name.tar>
The -x tells tar extract information from the tar file, the -v will echo
the exctractions to the screen so you know it's working, and the -f signals
that the <file.name.tar> is where to extract from. Make sure you uncompress
it first if neccessary (a compressed file has a .Z on the end). Note that
the -v switch is optional. I like it becuase it shows that it's doing
something. If the file is compressed you can also untar it with out
uncompressing by using
zcat <file.name.tar.Z> | tar -xvf -
This saves disk space as you don't have the uncompressed tar file laying
around.
-mark
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