You're right, I was looking on an RHS box. I wonder why SuSE didn't include it? Tar is never out of date. Rogier A Nourai wrote:
there is no man page for tar included in suse (its uniantained and old and out of date??).
I think we've been through this. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rogier Maas"
To: "david" Cc: "SuSE Linux" Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 11:56 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Tar! Isn't anybody aware of the tar manpages?
man tar
gives you everything you need.
Rogier
david wrote:
* Rusty
: The other day I downloaded a driver from oss for my soundcard. I used the command gunzip oss* | tar xvh. All I got was the oss*.tar file. When I tried to untar this file with the command tar xvh oss* and hit enter the cursor moved one line down and sat there blinking at me.
perhaps you meant f instead of h:
tar xvf oss*
also, you could have decompressed it with tar (with z).
What gives with SuSE? Is ther some secret? Information in the 6.3 manual is nonexistant.
here are the keys you seek:
tar --help | less info tar
(david)
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