Use the verbose command for tar (check the man page, I don't know what the
option). Or better yet use "tar -xvzf" to unzip and untar *.tar.gz files
in one step.
--Shawn Craver
University Of Connecticut
Computer Science and Engineering
Undergraduate Student
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Isaacson, Scott D. wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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