Hello Abner, If you had NVIDIA.tar.gz on a floppy and issued that command, then you *should* be able to now look at the floppy and see that it just decompressed into a NEW directory on your floppy. I see another has mentioned the use of the "-" is not required for the tar command.
Now, typically, I cp (copy) my tar file somewhere on my hard drive for uncompressing. Locally I use /home/~/temp. If I'm working as root, I use /tmp directory since it's cleared every time I boot and I really appreciate that. Do a 'man tar' and it will give you more info as to the arguements for the tar command. I don't really care to see stuff happening, so I leave out the 'v' which is Verbose. I would just do 'tar xfz filethatistard.tar.gz' and it will create the new directory and extract the contents there. Now, the 'ls' command is great. Use 'ls -l' to see not only the tar'd file but the new directory you just created. You can 'cd' into the directory and re-issue the 'ls -l' command etc. hth and good luck On Thursday 24 May 2001 08:05, Casper Gielen wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:49:04AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > > mount my floppy and decompress my tar files using "tar > > -xzvf NVIDIA.tar.gz". I could see written to the > > screen all the various files being unzipped. Now I > > can't find which directory these files are in. They > > are not in the parent directory /usr/local that I > > copied the files to from the floppy drive before > > unzipping. Is there a find application I could use? > > Leave out the dash before the tar options. Tar deviates a bit from > normal way of specifying otions. > > $ tar xzpvf <filename.tar.gz> should work -- Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls/TELE: USA-707-442-6579\/A GNU-Debian linux user Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls ICQ: 12741145 If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. SHOUT JUST FOR FUN. Free software, in a free world, for a free spirit. Please Support freedom!
