Re: Help! Tar won't work!
Dan Smith wrote:
>
> The first few archives I opened with tar worked fine,
> but then it stopped working. I installed cpio and the
> first few tars I opened with it worked fine too, but
> then it stopped functioning as well. I tried
> reinstalling both, to no avail. What happens is, I
> type the command to untar an archive, and it scrolls
> up a line and the next line is just blank, and the
> whole thing freezes until I hit CTRL-C, at which point
> I'm back at the prompt again. I can tell it isn't
> doing anything during this time because the HDrive
> light isn't on and it isn't making any drive noises.
> Help!
>
Well, if you're doing a tar extraction, and you don't specify an input
file with the 'f' option, and you don't use '< <filename>' to tell the
shell you're input's coming from <filename>, then tar will try to get
it's input from the keyboard, and I would bet that that's what's
happening to you. Maybe you're doing something like:
tar xfv filename
instead of
tar xvf filename?
(Next time, at least tell us what you're typing. Why keep us in the
dark if you want help?)
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