Comments on: Extract a tar archive or file

By: Adelnegro

Adelnegro — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:18:00 +0000

Perfect. This work for me. I install all like root. Thanks

David C. — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:07:00 +0000

Remember that you may need to supercede user root:

shell> sudo tar xvf

That way you can have permission to write anywhere on the file system that is needed to extract the files.

Bavenflaven — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:11:00 +0000

Very Simple. Thanks!

Kevin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:15:00 +0000

Juat wanted to know how to open one of these damn things…
Great – thank you!

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:00:00 +0000

FYI, couldn’t find this on your site, but feel this is a good place for this info. For a tar.gz on Solaris 9 I’ve used:

gunzip -c zip.tar.gz | tar -tf -

I believe on modern distros you can use:

gtar -tf zip.tar.gz

msf3 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:51:00 +0000

thnx