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From: ray3rd@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ray E. Saddler III)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tar from a disk (not tape)
Summary: You forgot a crucial flag.....
Keywords: tar
Message-ID: <2640@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 89 15:29:06 GMT
References: <1517@cmx.npac.syr.edu>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In article <1517@cmx.npac.syr.edu>, gefuchs@goedel.uucp (Gill E. Fuchs) writes:
> i have in my directory a file named  gugu.tar  which i assume is a tarfile.
> 
> in my feeble attemp to do so i tried:
>         tar x gugu.tar
> 
> so, what to do?

Uhm...you need to place 'f' along with the 'x' flag to tell tar to
eXtract from a File, followed by the file name (which you placed
correctly):

     'tar xf gugu.tar' should do the trick.
     
You may first want to 'tar -tf gugu.tar' to lisT the file first to
check for absolute pathnames or regular filenames that may hammer 
something you want to keep, resulting in explicit name extraction:

     'tar -xf gugu.tar' file1 file2 file3 ...
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