Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!goanna!minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au!s902113 From: s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Luke Mewburn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: question about tar.Z file Message-ID: <1991May22.022653.1911@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> Date: 22 May 91 02:26:53 GMT Article-I.D.: minyos.1991May22.022653.1911 References: <7918@auspex.auspex.com> <16212@smoke.brl.mil> <1991May22.005816.1351@cse.uta.edu> Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia. Lines: 25 khwang@cse.uta.edu (khwang) writes: >Hello, >Does anyone out there how I can teansfer a tar.Z file to ASCII readble >file ? I tried uncompress, for example, a.tar.Z then I got an a.tar then >what next ? Your reply will be greatly appreciated ! >KC >. Well, if you want to get an ascii file out of a tar file (eg. a.tar in your example), type: tar -xvof a.tar This will untar the lot. '-xvo' says untar the file, and '-o' makes you the owner. I am pretty sure that if you edited the file (ie, a.tar) with vi, you could rip the text out yourself, but that is fiddly. -- ____________________________________________________________________________ | | | | Luke Mewburn (Zak) | This side for lease... | | s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au | (No disclaimer, can't afford it:-) |