From: | Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.EDU> | ||
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To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents? | ||
Date: | Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:09:00 | ||
Message-Id: | 20100225172153.GA25868@math.princeton.edu | ||
In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents? by Mark Knecht |
1 | On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 09:15:47AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: |
2 | > MacMini home # tar -xjf /mnt/cdrom/evelyn.20100214.tar.bz2 /home/evelyn/ |
3 | > tar: /home/evelyn: Not found in archive |
4 | |
5 | You need the -C flag. See man tar. |
6 | |
7 | W |
8 | -- |
9 | Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
10 | Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
11 | et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |