Hi, I have a slight tar problem (no I haven't been smoking!)
I have a tar file foo.tar when I extract it, it has the the following error messages tar xvf foo.tar ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../ tar: ../: Member name contains `..' ../tmp/ tar: ../tmp/: Member name contains `..' ../tmp/foo.tar.gz tar: ../tmp/foo.tar.gz: Member name contains `..' ../237_autumn03_outline.doc tar: ../237_autumn03_outline.doc: Member name contains `..' ../assTemplate.doc tar: ../assTemplate.doc: Member name contains `..' ../bibRefEd7.doc tar: ../bibRefEd7.doc: Member name contains `..' ../completedModules/ tar: ../completedModules/: Member name contains `..' ../completedModules/itc129/ tar: ../completedModules/itc129/: Member name contains `..' ../completedModules/itc129/assignments/ tar: ../completedModules/itc129/assignments/: Member name contains `..' ../completedModules/itc129/assignments/ass1/ tar: ../completedModules/itc129/assignments/ass1/: Member name contains `..' ../completedModules/itc129/assignments/ass1/ass1.doc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ apparently I have tarred it up using the parent directory. I can't remember doing that. The first few lines are also curious. the file foo.tar.gz lives in the 'tmp' directory, where I've made a copy of it to *play* with. It's in the tmp directory that I have carr is there any way I can retrieve these files? currently there is no output. somehow I need to trick tar into thinking that everything should go into the current directory, any ideas? thanks, Luke -- ======================== Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit Mobile: 0421 276 282 ======================== -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
