Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.EDU>
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
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5 You need the -C flag. See man tar.
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9 Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu
10 Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire
11 et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton