According to Isaacson, Scott D.: While burning my CPU.
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> I'm having a problem in RH 5.2 with tar. If I try to open a file I download
> from the net the shell just sits there. It seems like nothing is happening.
Open a file with tar, ?? you extracht a file with tar or create an archive
with tar, you can open a tar archive with 'zless' to see "most" of its
contents.
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> I can gunzip the file, but as far using tar, forget it. The system just
> sits there. The PC seems to recognize the tar command because I can type
> "tar -help" and get the help for using the tar command. I'm definitely a
> newbie at all this so I'm probably missing something rather obvious.
try;
tar xzf filename.tar.gz
-x extracht
-z run it through gzip
-f filename
-v verbose
Verbose is nice if you want to see your screen scroll fast and makes you
dizzy when untarring large archives.
'man tar' should help you more.
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> I don't think it's working because when I look at the process it's using
> absolutely no CPU.
> I don't think it's the file because I can open it on a slackware PC at work.
You are not giving the complete command so tar just takes over the console
and does nothing.
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> If someone can give me any guidance I'd really appreciate it.
>
> Thank you,
> Scott Isaacson
> Technical Support Engineer
> Verax Systems, Inc.
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Regards Richard.
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