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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

4831.0. "Need some TAR help" by PAMSRC::63686::BARRETT (I will not instigate revolution) Wed Jun 19 1991 23:35

    Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
    
    I'm trying to unarchive a TAR file, but the command line
    "tar -x file1.tar" and "tar -x file1.tar *" return a
    "ram:file.tar file or directory not found" error
    
    What's the syntax to extract all files and directory structure from a
    tar file?
    
    Thanks!
    
    Keith

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
4831.1		SIEVAX::JAMIE	Batteries not included!	`Thu Jun 20 1991 06:18`	9
	Just a guess; try tar -xpf. This is not guaranteed to work since I'm just making it up as I go along from memory, but it's worth a try, isn't it ? ;-) Cheers, Jamie.
4831.2	Hope this helps	BAHTAT::BAHTAT::HILTON	How's it going royal ugly dudes?	`Thu Jun 20 1991 06:29`	7
	Tar -xvf filename.tar will work. Without the f it sounds like it defaults to ram:, so if you tar file is on dh1: and you wanna unpack it to df0: , then cd df0: and type tar -xvf dh1:file.tar Greg
4831.3		SIEVAX::JAMIE	Batteries not included!	`Thu Jun 20 1991 06:47`	1
	Damn! I knew I was close; p rhymes with v !!!
4831.4	Actually, they both work...	MADRE::MWM		`Thu Jun 20 1991 15:05`	10
	x says eXtract; f says from File. So all you need is "tar -xf file.tar". v is Verbose; that causes it to list the files as it extracts them. p is Protect; it puts the mode back without using your UMASK. It should be a nop on AmigaDOS. By habit, I do xpf. I do xpvf if I need to see the file names as it extracts. <mike