Hi Great stuff the switches did the trick thanks a lot. Regards Per Qvindesland On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 22:38 +0100, Tom H wrote: > > Does anyone know how to extract a pax archive in Linux? I have been > > trying with the pax but with no joy perhaps I did not put in the correct > > switches. > > pax -r -pe -f archive.pax > > (the "e" is to preserve uid, gid, mode, atime, mtime) > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos