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Re: tar
- To: "cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: tar
- From: John Fortin <fortinj at attglobal dot net>
- Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 10:02:52 -0500
- References: <20000318145831.60822.qmail@hotmail.com>
rick Slovene wrote:
>
> I cant untar any files.
> I type tar -x file.tar
> and then it just does nothing
>
> ie.
> START
> bash-2.02$tar -x file.tar[ENTER]
> [CNTRL+C](it just sits there and does nothing, same with tar -t)
> bash-2.02$
> END
try 'tar -xvf foo.tar'
the -xvf tells tar to extract(x), be verbose(v), the following file(f)
John
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