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- From: mh11059@ehsn15.cen.uiuc.edu (Min Hua)
- Newsgroups: alt.chinese.text
- Subject: Re: Help for decomposing .tar files
- Message-ID: <C1HJtn.oA@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:56:11 GMT
- References: <6747@pdxgate.UUCP> <93024.123132IO11043@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
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- Robert Pan <IO11043@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
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- >In article <6747@pdxgate.UUCP>, tan@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Tan Shuming) says:
- >>
- >>I got some .tar files from public domain and want to extract the files out.
- >>But I failed to do it. My system always say the device /dev/rmt8 does not
- >>exist. Could someone give me the correct steps how to do the job.
- >>
- >>Thanks in advance.
- >>
- >>
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- >Try this one:
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- >tar -xvf file.tar
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- If you try to extract a single file from the tar.file, try the following steps:
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- [1] First, use the following command to list the content of the tar.file:
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- tar -tf file.tar
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- [2] Then, use the following command to extract the file you want:
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- tar -xvf file.tar filename
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