Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:22:54
Message-Id: 20100225181335.59227d5e@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents? by Mark Knecht
1 On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:15:47 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
2
3 > tar -tz /mnt/cdrom/evelyn.20100214.tar.bz2
4 >
5 > and it's been going 15 minutes without writing anything to the screen.
6 > I assume that I need to list the contents of the tar file to figure
7 > out how to untar but I'm really not sure.
8
9 tar tvf archivename
10
11 Don't specify the compression type, let tar work it out for itself.
12
13
14 --
15 Neil Bothwick
16
17 With 5 billion people on earth chances are slim it will ever be *your*
18 day.

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