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Re: nebie questions
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Ben Nes Michael wrote:
BNM>man pages r horrible, hard to understand and arranged very stupidly
BNM>
BNM>Who can understand how to use tar from man page ? i didn't
BNM>man pages r good only to refresh what u already know
BNM>
did you read this? did you read what options below mean. What
exactly you not undestood? :) May be you bever use archivers from command
line? :) it is an Xtar for such case :)
------------------ man tar -----------------------------------
EXAMPLES
tar -xvvf foo.tar
extract foo.tar
tar -xvvzf foo.tar.gz
extract gzipped foo.tar.gz
tar -cvvf foo.tar foo/
tar contents of folder foo in foo.tar
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