On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 08:14:24PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > root@mikef-PC:/usr/src# tar -xf linux-4.14.15.tar.xz > > Can anyone think of a command that will let me know where the files > went/confirm it ran properly? Use "tar -xvf ..." to get verbose output (filenames) during the extraction. Or, use "tar -tvf ..." to get a table of contents of the archive. (You probably want to pipe that through less, or some other pager.)