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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:06:33
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b1002250915j7b8def00uaaef86dbadc6bcda@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi,
2 I backed up my wife's home directory using tar in preparation to
3 moving her to a new machine but I don't remember the exact command I
4 used to do the tar command. When I tried to untar on the new machine
5 it failed to do anything. (except use 30 minutes of CPU time...)
6
7 MacMini home # tar -xjf /mnt/cdrom/evelyn.20100214.tar.bz2 /home/evelyn/
8 tar: /home/evelyn: Not found in archive
9 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
10 MacMini home #
11
12 I'm currently running
13
14 tar -tz /mnt/cdrom/evelyn.20100214.tar.bz2
15
16 and it's been going 15 minutes without writing anything to the screen.
17 I assume that I need to list the contents of the tar file to figure
18 out how to untar but I'm really not sure.
19
20 How do I best proceed?
21
22 Thanks,
23 Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents? Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.EDU>
Re: [gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents? Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents? Florian Philipp <lists@××××××××××××××××××.net>