On 26 Feb 2003 at 9:12am, Kenneth Sullivan wrote > Now I have a file in my temp directory named > <hostname>._.1_shares.20030206.0. I've tried to tar it to expand the > contents but the server just sits there, even when running tar > overnight. I used: > > tar xvpS <hostname>._.1_shares.20030206.0 > > What am I doing wrong? I need to be able to pull a certain directory > out and trash the rest. Any help will be appreciated.
You need to give tar the 'f' option to tell it what file to read from: tar xvpSf <hostname>._.1_shares.20030206.0 It was waiting for something to come in from stdin. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
