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Re: extracting file with xz file tar.....

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: extracting file with xz file tar.....
Date	2018-01-25 21:40 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 08:14:24PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> root@mikef-PC:/usr/src# tar -xf linux-4.14.15.tar.xz
> 
> Can anyone think of a command that will let me know where the files
> went/confirm it ran properly?

Use "tar -xvf ..." to get verbose output (filenames) during the extraction.

Or, use "tar -tvf ..." to get a table of contents of the archive.
(You probably want to pipe that through less, or some other pager.)

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Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-01-25 21:40 +0100
  Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com> - 2018-01-25 22:10 +0100

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