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Old 02-18-2010
list content of tar
Dear Friends ,

Code:
$tar tf testing.tgz
a
b
c
d
e

$tar tf testing.tgz a
a
$tar tf testing.tgz a a
a
tar: a: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I don't know the reason, why last command got failed .How to solve above problem .
Last edited by zaxxon; 02-18-2010 at 05:09 AM.. Reason: use code tags, not html tags :)
# 2  
Old 02-18-2010
Because a is only once in the archive and you asked tar to list it twice, but it already did once.
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