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Old 10-27-2006, 08:25 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Originally posted by Law
f tells it to force local or use archive file and v is just a verbose way of verifing the process each 10 line.

So the basic command for extracting a tar file is tar -xvf file.tar
Law, Yes I did do that. Could I interpret the f to mean extract, verbosely the file associated to the.tar?

In a sense then even though v is for verbose, it still verifies?
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