RE: 2 nd CHIP CD

["Atul Chitnis" <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Methinks the "-xzvf" should not have a "-" before it, and that you need to
give a target for extraction, as you cannot extract onto the CD (as Ashok
has pointed out).

Hence "tar xzvf abc.tar.gz -C /tmp" is the right way if you want to extract
into /tmp (charge to whatever directory you want, and note that it is
capital C in -C).

To list the contents of the file, you can just use "tar tzvf abc.tar.gz"
since that does not require extraction.

Atul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Majordomo [mailto:majordom@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of V S Ashoka
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 9:51 AM
> To: linux-india@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: 2 nd CHIP CD
>
>
> > load TAR files with tar -xvzf file.tar an error message comes
> on says that
> 	it is trying to write onto  the tar file itself (tar always does).
> you can't write on the CD. So give options to write it on hard disk or
> copy the tar file and remember to change the permissions.
> Ashok
>
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