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Re: [Bug-tar] -O (stdout) bug


From: Sergey Poznyakoff
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] -O (stdout) bug
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:39:53 +0300

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Germ=E1n_Andr=E9s_Schwartz?= <address@hidden> wrote:

> When I use this command:
> tar -O -K"atk-1.9.0.info" -xf /mnt/chori/usr/pkg/atk-1.9.0.mcpkg
> Just I obtain some strange character combination (the content of the

Option -K extracts from the archive *all* files starting from the given
member. So, what you get is file atk-1.9.0.info plus any files that
follow it in atk-1.9.0.mcpkg.

To extract only atk-1.9.0.info, use the following command:

 tar -O -xf /mnt/chori/usr/pkg/atk-1.9.0.mcpkg atk-1.9.0.info

Regards,
Sergey 




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