[102149] in RedHat Linux List
Re: A Bunch of Newbie Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Wood)
Tue Dec 1 16:49:05 1998
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 16:47:09 -0500
From: Eric Wood <eric@interplas.com>
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David Viray wrote:
>
> When attempting to untar a file nothing happens... I download a file under
> NT, and FTPed it to my 5.1 Redhat machine. I unzipped it fine, but when I
> run "tar -xvm filename_tar" nothing happens (I've let it sit for 10
> minutes). I have tried fewer options (-x) with the same results.
You're missing the -f argument.
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