07-10-2007
Below is my assumption on what is happening and what could be done...
Are you running the below command from the root [/] ? If you are then you need write permissions on the root directory? The below command means that you are trying to extract all the files and directories to the root directory.
tar -xvf /xxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxx/genga.tar
I would suggest to 'cd' into /xxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxx/ and run:
tar -xvf genga.tar
This will try to extract your files and directories to /xxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxx/ where I guess you have the write permission.
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ptargrep - Apply pattern matching to the contents of files in a tar archive
SYNOPSIS
ptargrep [options] <pattern> <tar file> ...
Options:
--basename|-b ignore directory paths from archive
--ignore-case|-i do case-insensitive pattern matching
--list-only|-l list matching filenames rather than extracting matches
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DESCRIPTION
This utility allows you to apply pattern matching to the contents of files contained in a tar archive. You might use this to identify all
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OPTIONS
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When matching files are extracted, ignore the directory path from the archive and write to the current directory using the basename of
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