On Thursday 16 May 2002 20.09, Clayton Cornell wrote:
Agreed, tar -xf file.tar would extract the tarfile, and has many times for me on my home system. For this situation, I want to untar the file on a system I do not have root access to, and cannot get root access to - not permitted or negotiable due to strict security on this system. I can only work in /home/<username> and /usr/local/ The tarfile I have was created by someone else and it wants to extract to /opt - a directory that exists, but is root write access only.
Indeed, but the fact that you could use "gtar" suggests that Alexander's hunch was correct, you're not on a linux system when you do this, are you? Is it *BSD? Solaris? In any case, try gtar -xf file.tar //Anders -- I swear I do declare - how did you get that there?