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Name: satish
Date: March 5, 2002 at 22:05:57 Pacific
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Hi to all,
I am new user. I want to know how to use
tar command in scounixware 7.1.0.
Can any one give me full but simple decription of same(Man tar help I can not
understand).



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Name: James Boothe
Date: March 6, 2002 at 06:31:43 Pacific
Reply:

Those man pages can be very confusing! On HP-UX, to create a tar file:

tar cf myfile.tar

To expand a tar file:

tar xf myfile.tar


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Name: James Boothe
Date: March 6, 2002 at 06:36:57 Pacific
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Sorry, above is wrong. Even though I use the special coding for left angle bracket, and it looks good on the Confirm screen, the info disappears upon posting. I will avoid the angle brackets. To create a tar file:

tar cf myfile.tar (list of files/dirs)

To expand existing tar file:

tar xf myfile.tar

(Use xvf to include the verbose option).


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