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Old 05-12-2008
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Unhappy problem in tar command

i have a tar file that needs to extracted from a file ... i am using the following command
zcat /NRS/$tar_name | tar xvfB - ...
if i give this command directly in the unix box it works ... but if it try to give it in a script it is failing ... it is unable to extract some files, says it cannot set time for those files and the ouput of the tar is all over the screen and not in a line by line format .. pls help