On Thursday 15 March 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote:
[...]
>with "/bin/tar -f - >/tmp/test/", you ask bash to open the file
> "/tmp/test/" for write, then start tar and pass this file as its
> stdout. Obviously this is wrong. I think that what you're trying to do
> is send extracted files to /tmp/test, which is what '-C' is for. Also,
> you need to specify a command for tar. You didn't. I bet if you do the
> following, it will work :
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] data]# dd if=00010.coyote._lib.1 bs=32k skip=1 |
> /bin/gzip -dc | /bin/tar -C /tmp/test/ -xf -
>
>Now, Gene, this is becoming totally off-topic right here.
My apologies, I've been corrected, thanks for your patience. And I'll see
if I can get that text in the amanda file headers amended too.
>Regards,
>Willy
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Cheers, Gene
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