On 26 Feb 2003 at 9:12am, Kenneth Sullivan wrote

> Now I have a file in my temp directory named
> <hostname>._.1_shares.20030206.0.  I've tried to tar it to expand the
> contents but the server just sits there, even when running tar
> overnight.  I used:
> 
> tar xvpS <hostname>._.1_shares.20030206.0
> 
> What am I doing wrong?  I need to be able to pull a certain directory
> out and trash the rest.  Any help will be appreciated.

You need to give tar the 'f' option to tell it what file to read from:

tar xvpSf <hostname>._.1_shares.20030206.0

It was waiting for something to come in from stdin.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University