On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 19:52, Steve Lamb wrote: > Over the past weekend I had a meltdown on my server's only HD. The best > I could do was nab some tars from the filesystems using LNX-BBC, move > them over the network to a Windows box, reformat and reinstall.
Shame, shame, shame!!! Why didn't you back up your data??? [snip] > Does anyone have any ideas on how to get that file out from the tar so I > may access the files that reside after it in the tar? There's about > 2,000 more files in there I'd really like to pull out. 1/2 my home dir, Could you do 1,999 single file extractions, thus leaving the bad file in the tarball? bash should make doing that /relatively/ easy... -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ ron.l.johnson | | | | "For me and windows it became a matter of easy to start | | with, and becoming increasingly difficult to be produc- | | tive as time went on, and if something went wrong very | | difficult to fix, compared to linux's large over head | | setting up and learning the system with ease of use and | | the increase in productivity becoming larger the longer I | | use the system." | | Rohan Nicholls , The Netherlands | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
