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Re: tar problems in cygwin
- To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: tar problems in cygwin
- From: mh@mike.franken.de (Michael Hirmke)
- Date: 07 Feb 1999 20:58:00 +0100
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Hi Eric,
>Am I using tar incorrectly here or does tar under cygwin not work the same
>as in bash under Linux?
>
>BASH.EXE-2.02$ cd /
>BASH.EXE-2.02$ tar -xvfz /windows/desktop/emacs*
^^^^^
This won't work in Unix, too, because it
takes z as an argument for f assuming it is a
filename.
tar -xvzf /windows/desktop/emacs*
would be correct.
[...]
Bye.
Michael.
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