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Re: Newbie: where did my tar.gz file decompress to?



On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:49:04AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote:
> mount my floppy and decompress my tar files using "tar
> -xzvf NVIDIA.tar.gz". I could see written to the
> screen all the various files being unzipped. Now I
> can't find which directory these files are in. They
> are not in the parent directory /usr/local that I
> copied the files to from the floppy drive before
> unzipping. Is there a find application I could use?
> 

Leave out the dash before the tar options. Tar deviates a bit from
normal way of specifying otions.

$ tar xzpvf <filename.tar.gz> should work


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