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wierdness w/ TAR

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yak8998
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wierdness w/ TAR

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Post by yak8998 » Sat Jan 31, 2004 7:47 pm

I cannot get tar to work with any files at all. No matter what options I pass it, it just sits there until i kill it. Is there an error log or anything for it? Any ideas? Thanks...
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Post by adaptr » Sat Jan 31, 2004 7:50 pm

Post the exact commands you issued - your statement that "it doesn't work" is not very helpful ;-)
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Post by massimo » Sat Jan 31, 2004 7:50 pm

Give us an example of what you're doing.
edit: emm... someone was faster.
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Post by yak8998 » Sun Feb 01, 2004 1:21 am

for example ill do:

tar -xj file1.tar.bz2

or tar -_ _ _ file1.tar.bz2

any combonation of the letters and i get nothing, the cursor sits on a blank line under the last cmmd entered. simple as that
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Post by d99ma » Sun Feb 01, 2004 1:29 am

try $tar -xjf file.tar.bz2
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