> Reply-To: e9325359@tuwien.ac.at
> From: e9325359@tuwien.ac.at (Horkel Ernst)
> 
> Hi folks !
> 
> the command
> 
>     "gzcat filename | (cd / ; tar --unlink -xvfp -)"
>
> fails. The output is:
> 
>     "tar: can't open p: No such file or directory."

Obviously tar treats the string immediately after the f (file) as the
filename, if you specify the options with a leading '-', so just swap
the letters f and p or omit the "-" character before the options. (Not
the one at the end, which represents stdin.)

I usually use "tar xvfp" and it works fine.

> 
> Ernst
> 


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