[24giovanni]

Using FC5, If I have a .tar extension with the arguments of xvf do they stand for the following:
X= extract, v= verify, f= file stand? Is that correct? If not, what do the stand for please?

TIA

[Law]

You can find all that out, just do tar --help or man tar

x to extract it while f tells it to force local or use archive file and v is just a verbose way of verifing the process each 10 line.

and it's lower case x not X, X is to exclude a file.

So the basic command for extracting a tar file is tar -xvf file.tar

[24giovanni]

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?

[horndude]

x=extract
v=verbosely or verbose ( send more details of operation to stdout, in this case print all files operated on inside the archive)

v doesnt verify anything

-f means operate on the file after the -f

[The General]

Do "man tar" for more info.