Hi shane, Thanks for your advice. On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 23:20, shane c branch wrote: > gzip -dc filename.tar.gzip | tar -xvf - > this will create a directory in your current working directory and > unpack the tarball there. Sorry I am not very clear of the procedure. I already have a tarball created namely "backup_local.tar.gz" and kept on a CD. What I need is to decompress it and paste all unpacked Inbox, Outbox, Sent, etc. to /home/satimis/evolution/local/ B.Regards Stephen > Stephen Liu wrote: > > Hi Scot, > > > > Thanks for your advice > > > > On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 12:30, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > > >>I believe you need to drop the second parameter on your untar command. > >>Just put the file name of the tar file after the zxvf options. > > > > > > Sorry, I have not explained clear in my first posting of this subject. > > > > I want to untar and paste all files to the same folder/directory > > > > /home/satimis/evolution/local/ > > > > as I created the tarball with full path (same path) > > > > I can untar the tarball but not as my desire > > > > Thanks > > > > B.Regards > > Stephen > > > > > > > >>On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 00:31, Stephen Liu wrote: > >> > >>>Hi all folks, > >>> > >>>Ximian Evolution 1.4 > >>>==================== > >>>I created a tarball on RH8.0 with following steps > >>> > >>>1) # mkdir /home/satimis/Temp-1 > >>>2) # tar zcvf /home/satimis/Temp-1/backup_local.tar.gz > >>>/home/satimis/evolution/local/ > >>> > >>>Burnt the tarball with Xcdroat and untared it to Ximian Evolution 1.4 > >>>(same version) but running on RH9.0 with following results > >>> > >>>1) # tar zxvf /mnt/cdrom/backup_local.tar.gz > >>>/home/satimis/evolution/local/ > >>>tar: /home/satimis/evolution/local: Not found in archive > >>> > >>>2) # tar zxvf /mnt/cdrom/backup_local.tar.gz /home/satimis/evolution/ > >>>tar: /home/satimis/evolution: Not found in archive > >>>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > >>> > >>>Kindly advise what mistake I have committed. Or the tarball must be > >>>untared to the same version of RedHat. > >>> > >>>Thanks in advance. > >>> > >>>B.Regards > >>>Stephen Liu > > > > > > > > To Get Your Own iCareHK.com Email Address? Go To www.iCareHK.com. > > > > > > -- > > regards, > > shane > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
