Strange Tar behavior

From: Unix4me@aol.com
Date: Tue Oct 21 2003 - 21:13:20 EDT


Greetings,

I was trying to run a tar command!!! on a 25G tar file

[source-directory]# tar xvf file.tar /path_to_destination

that didn't work, it will just hang there.

Then I tried to cd to the destination directory and ran

[destination-directory]# tar xvf /source-directory/file.tar .

and that also didn't work. The tar file was created w/ relative path. Finally
it worked when I moved the tar file to the destination and ran tar locally.

I am running on solaris 8.

TY
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