---- Original Message -----
>From: "Martin McCormick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Extracting individual Files via tar
>
>
>> The command
>>
>> tar ztf /usr/local/src/ports.tar.gz
>>
>> produces a table of contents just like the man page says
you must use the f flag when manipulation files.
no f flag equals attempt to access tape drive.
Martin McCormick wrote:
The command
tar ztf /usr/local/src/ports.tar.gz
produces a table of contents just like the man page says it should.
The man page also says that individual files can be recover
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
wrote Martin McCormick thusly...
>
> The command
>
> tar ztf /usr/local/src/ports.tar.gz
>
> produces a table of contents just like the man page says it should.
> The man page also says that individual files can be recovered or
> listed but I haven't gotten
re treated as archive members - eg
tar -xzf archive.tgz files/to/extract
In your example below, it was trying to find 2 files in a non-existent
archive.
- Original Message -
From: "Martin McCormick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Extracting individual Files via tar
The command
tar ztf /usr/local/src/ports.tar.gz
produces a table of contents just like the man page says it should.
The man page also says that individual files can be recovered or
listed but I haven't gotten that to work at all. if I try:
$ tar zt ports/print/pstotext/ /usr/local/src/p
