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- From: aoki@physics.ucla.edu (Ken-ichiro Aoki)
- Subject: GNU tar (was Re: su File Viewer)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.231320.14356@physics.ucla.edu>
- Summary: GNU tar does the job, as usual.
- Keywords: GNU tar
- Organization: UCLA Department of Physics
- References: <BURNS.92Nov19132017@bobcat.cc.gatech.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 23:13:20 GMT
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- In article <BURNS.92Nov19132017@bobcat.cc.gatech.edu> burns@cc.gatech.edu (James E. Burns) writes:
- >It's a good idea to know what will happen BEFORE you unpack an unknown
- >archive. I use the following little aliases to inspect things before
- >I "untar":
- >
- ># Show the contents of a *.tar file
- >alias showtar 'tar vtf \!:1'
- ># Show the contents of a *.tar.Z file
- >alias showZ 'zcat \!:1 | tar vtf -'
- >
- ....
-
- I have seen this a couple of times now so I will post rather
- than email. You can use GNU tar and say
-
- to show the content (verbose)
- % tar -vtf foo.tar
- % tar -zvtf foo.tar.Z
-
- to unpack
- % tar -xf foo.tar
- % tar -zxf foo.tar.Z
-
- On NeXTstep3.0, GNU tar 1.10 does come with the system as
- /usr/bin/gnutar so you don't have to install it.
- Latest version I know of is 1.11.1 which compiles fine on NeXTs.
- I don't mean to flame or anything but this may save you some
- effort.
-
- Another feature I like is that you can do remote tars
- using GNU tar, which we use (since we don't have tape
- drives hooked up to the NeXTs.)
- --
- ___Kenichiro Aoki. (aoki@physics.ucla.edu)
-