From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 22 7: 9:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A95DD37B401 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 07:09:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (h24-76-91-242.vc.shawcable.net [24.76.91.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9919743F85 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 07:09:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aardvark@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com) Received: from hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h1MF2hig026400; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 07:02:43 -0800 Received: (from aardvark@localhost) by hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id h1MF2e6S026395; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 07:02:40 -0800 Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 07:02:39 -0800 From: Saint Aardvark the Carpeted To: Anil Garg Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new bie (tar command) Message-ID: <20030222150239.GG15638@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Anil Garg disturbed my sleep to write: > p.s. i looked earlier at -t, infact i was also trying to use -x with -t. Logical enough, but not correct. -t and -x are mutually exclusive. -t means "just list the contents"; -x means "extract the contents" (ie, get files out of the tarball). The tar command won't let you do both. Hope this helps, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message