help: tar -xzfv foo.tar.gz

[Jeff Vian]

javac javac wrote:

>I don't understand why the following doesn't work:
>
>tar -xzfv opera-7.51-20040602.1-static-qt.i386-en.tar.gz
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Use "tar -xzvf opera-7.51-20040602.1-static-qt.i386-en.tar.gz"
               ^^^^

What follows the "f" is the name of the file to process.  Anything 
following that are the contents of the tar file to extract.

>gives:
>
>tar (child): v: Cannot open: No such file or directory
>tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>tar: Child returned status 2
>tar: opera-7.51-20040602.1-static-qt.i386-en.tar.gz: Not found in archive
>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
>what am i doing wrong, please?
>
>the manual page on tar doesn't help much..
>
>thanks,
>
>javac at mail dot com
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>