Problems extracting tar file

[ianf]

Hi all,

I'm creating tar & gzip files using the following;

> tar cf perf_stats.`date +"%y%m%d%H%M"`.tar working | gzip perf_stats.`date +"%y%m%d*"`.tar

Once I've unzipped the file I try to do
> tar xf filename .

to extract, but get nowhere.
I can see the files within the archive if I do
> tar tf filename
and they look fine.

Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong ? Ian

"IF" is not a word it's a way of life

 

[raider2001]

The file is a GNU zipped tar file now. So you need to gunzip it before untarring it.

tar zxf filename.tar

To do the gzip and tar in one command:
tar zcf filename.tar files