On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 10:16 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > You man have > > to say: > > tar xvzf bobg.tar.gz ./bobg/foo or maybe foo is not at the top of > the > > directory. > > Any Unix/Linux app that manipulates files clearly has to refer to them > with pathnames. It hardly seems necessary to point it out every time. > In > fact it would be extraordinary if it wasn't the case. > > > tar tvzf bobg.tar.gz will tell you that. Also you left out the z > option > > that you need to unzip. > > My point is that you *don't* need the z option. tar understands it > anyway (this is a feature from a year or two ago). Try it. > > poc Again when you are right you are right. I never noticed that the z in tar is optional. Thanks, I learned something. -- ======================================================================= One of the worst of my many faults is that I'm too critical of myself. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines