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while trying to extract an archive piped to <code>tar</code> like:
while trying to extract an archive piped to {{code|tar}} like:


  cat archive.tar | tar -x
  cat archive.tar | tar -x


You probably want to define <code>-f -</code> to tell tar to extract from stdin.
You probably want to define {{code|-f -}} to tell tar to extract from stdin.


  cat archive.tar | tar -xf -
  cat archive.tar | tar -xf -

Latest revision as of 19:14, 24 February 2017

If you are getting an error similar to:

tar: Failed to open '/dev/sa0'

while trying to extract an archive piped to tar like:

cat archive.tar | tar -x

You probably want to define -f - to tell tar to extract from stdin.

cat archive.tar | tar -xf -