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Austin Rau
Courses Plus Student 8,019 PointsCannot open Tar. FILE in Virtual console! PLEASE HELP!
It wanted me to extract the tar. file in my console so i copied the the web link into it for extraction, IDK! what to doooo. Im following him very well till now :((( please help!
2 Answers
sanozugrah
1,237 PointsWhat are you trying to do? Which video? Can you provide more details? What commands are you using?
James Barnett
39,199 Points@Austin -
- step 1 download the file using curl
- step 2 decompress the file using tar
Are you still having issues?
James Barnett
39,199 PointsIf you want to know more about using commands options:
Austin Rau
Courses Plus Student 8,019 PointsAustin Rau
Courses Plus Student 8,019 PointsGuess what. I mixed up "xvf" for "xfv" when i was trying to un-tar my file :) Silly me. Thanks for helping though.
sanozugrah
1,237 Pointssanozugrah
1,237 PointsCool! No worries. I always just type man [utility] This reminds me of all the various options. In this case it would be man tar or man info
Or just Google it. But the man pages give you extra geek points.
Tommy Morgan
Treehouse Guest TeacherTommy Morgan
Treehouse Guest TeacherAustin - getting the order of the arguments wrong shouldn't matter - tar should be just as cool with "-xvf" as with "-xfv." Maybe something else was wrong?