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Date:      Tue, 13 May 1997 03:49:11 -0800 (AKDT)
From:      Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net>
To:        Bernard Courtney <bc@bythehand.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UN Tar
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970513034740.1034I-100000@aak.anchorage.net>
In-Reply-To: <3377B931.244C@bythehand.com>

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On Mon, 12 May 1997, Bernard Courtney wrote:

> HI all,
> 
> Quick question- what is the command to un tar a local file?  eg. I have
> qmail in the /var directory, I want to extract it to the /var directory-
> what is the command?

man tar ...

tar -xzvf file

the z is used only if it's gzipped.  i would untar it in a tmp
directory first, to see how it untarrs - maybe not like you'd 
want it too.
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