Problems with tar in 11.11

[Lora Ganeva]

I wamt to extract a *.tar archive but it seems that the tar command doesn't work at all..Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Luc Bussieres_1]

Hi,

What do you mean by does not work?
What is the syntax of the tar you are running?
what is the error message?

Luc

[Steve Steel]

Hi

What happens


tar -tvf file

Also ll of archive

Steve Steel

[PIYUSH D. PATEL]

Hi,

# tar -xvf *.tar

What command are you giving and what is the error message.

First do a

#tar -tvf *.tar

to find out the contents of the archieve and then extract it.

Piyush

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Lora,

First thing to do is check exactly where the tar command is running from - do
which tar
should report /usr/bin/tar
Then check it with the file command
file /usr/bin/tar
Should report PA-RISC1.1 shared executable dynamically linked

Then you should check the tar file itself
what does
tar tvf filename.tar
show?

HTH,
Jeff

[Lora Ganeva]

tar fxv filename.tar -C /home
No error messages at all

[Duncan Edmonstone · Accepted solution]

What is the exact syntax you are attempting to use?

# tar xvf myarchive.tar

Should work if the archive is in tar format - check using the file command:

e.g.
# file myarchive.tar
myarchive.tar: tar file

HTH

Duncan

[Lora Ganeva]

Yes the archive is in tar format..but the syntax that You told me does not extract it

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Your arguments are in the wrong order - the f argument is expecting the name of the archive to follow it

tar xvf filename.tar -C /home

should work

HTH

Duncan

[Luc Bussieres_1]

Lora,

I'm not sure what the -C does but to extract your /home directory the syntax should be:

tar xvf filename.tar /home

Luc

[Lora Ganeva]

Thank You Sir..the error was xvf ..not fxv as I used