Quote:
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Xyzzy: Your command didn't seem to work. Perhaps if the 'z' had come first?
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Works fine here:
Code:
m@p4:~$ ls -l
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 5 m m 4096 2007-09-22 07:25 Desktop
m@p4:~$ mkdir a
m@p4:~$ cd a
m@p4:~/a$ touch 1 2 3
m@p4:~/a$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 m m 0 2007-09-22 07:27 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 m m 0 2007-09-22 07:27 2
-rw-r--r-- 1 m m 0 2007-09-22 07:27 3
m@p4:~/a$ cd ..
m@p4:~$ tar -cvf a.tar a/
a/
a/2
a/1
a/3
m@p4:~$ gzip a.tar
m@p4:~$ rm -rf a/
m@p4:~$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 m m 149 2007-09-22 07:27 a.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x 5 m m 4096 2007-09-22 07:25 Desktop
m@p4:~$ tar -xzvf a.tar.gz
a/
a/2
a/1
a/3
m@p4:~$ cd a
m@p4:~/a$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 m m 0 2007-09-22 07:27 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 m m 0 2007-09-22 07:27 2
-rw-r--r-- 1 m m 0 2007-09-22 07:27 3