On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:15:47 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > tar -tz /mnt/cdrom/evelyn.20100214.tar.bz2 > > and it's been going 15 minutes without writing anything to the screen. > I assume that I need to list the contents of the tar file to figure > out how to untar but I'm really not sure.
tar tvf archivename Don't specify the compression type, let tar work it out for itself. -- Neil Bothwick With 5 billion people on earth chances are slim it will ever be *your* day.
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