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From: iv@hal6000.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Using tar with the 'r' option
Message-ID: <-1087515@hal6000>
Date: 13 Jun 89 16:40:00 GMT
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Nf-From: hal6000.UUCP!iv    Jun 13 11:40:00 1989


/* Written  6:25 pm  Jun 11, 1989 by sbee.UUCP!mhlevy in comp.unix.xenix */
|* ---------- "Re: Using tar with the 'r' option" ---------- */
| In article <771@mccc.UUCP>, pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
| > Is there anyway to get tar to extract a file from an archive file and send
| > it to stdout (rather than to a file)?
| > -- 
| > Pete Holsberg, Professor, Technology Division
| 
| 
| Try:
|      tar xvf -   ( the '-' means stdout or stdin )
| 
| Mark
\* End of text from hal6000:comp.unix.xenix */

No, no, no.  "tar xf -" means to read the ARCHIVE from stdin, not to
write the file to stdout.  The `f' key in all cases means the ARCHIVE file.
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