Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:33:11 -0500 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com>, brain_damaged <brain_damaged@florida-wireless.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: untarring a chicken I mean a file Message-ID: <20011120153311.A14729@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20011120141240.A53581@grumpy.dyndns.org>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:12:40PM -0600 References: <200111201456.AA1966932132@florida-wireless.com> <20011120115606.P9030-100000@localhost> <20011120141240.A53581@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:12:40PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: > I always have a phobia as to whether or not the tar file was bundled in > a single directory or whether or not it was hundreds of little files > without a (sub)directory. So even if I expand it in my home directory > I'll create a throwaway directory to expand it into something like this: > > % mkdir junk > % cd junk > % tar -xvzf ../tarfile.tgz > You can also check with the -t option. tar -tzvf tarfile.tgz will list the contents of a tarball, without extracting it. -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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