Re: Stupid question #476 - how to untar

[Ross <nospam [at] ntlworld.com>]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote Ref. Stupid question #476 - how to untar:
> Erm..
> 
>  As the topic suggests...I can`t remember how to untar archives...I`m
> too used to using the file manager in Gnome.
> 
>  tried `tar -x file.tar` but it just seems to hang...
> 
>  Baz.

tar -xvf file.tar   or   tar -zxvf file.tar.gz
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Thanks,
        Ross
               ross.h [at] ntlworld.com
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