<div dir="ltr">Is there a space between "tar" and "-xvf..."? Doesn't look there's one in your example. Tar is the program, -xvf etc are the parameters.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 at 15:20 Raymond House <<a href="mailto:raymondh40@gmail.com">raymondh40@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi,I have a file in downloads that I cant open,again.It's an app called installer_linux.tar.gz.I'm supposed to extract the files using"tar-xvf installer_linux.tar.gz" I tried /home/raymond/downloads/ tar-xvf installer_linux.tar.gz but I keep getting no such file or directory,I'm sure I don't do it right. can some kind soul tell me exactly how? Thanks.<br></div></div>
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