[plug] re: tar

[Jon L. Miller]

might have been a typo, seems to work now.  But at first it was reporting:
tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next file header
tar: Only read 6312 bytes from archive samba-latest.tar.gz
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

looked back at the command and realise I type in tar -tvf instead of tar
tzf.

Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Kemner [mailto:zombie at wasp.net.au]
Sent: Friday, 9 June 2000 5:37 PM
To: Plug (E-mail)
Subject: [plug] re: tar


On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Jon L. Miller wrote:

> I'm trying to list the contents of a tar.gz file using tat -tzf
<filename>,

I hope you're writing "tar" not "tat"

> this isn't working, anyone have the correct command to list?

MORE INFO PLEASE!

Please, explain what happens when you type the above command.

tar -tzf <filename> should work
tar -tzvf <filename> gives additional info about each file.

You can also leave off the leading "-"

("tar tzvf <filename>" or "tar tzf <filename>")

 - Matt