How do I UNTAR a TAR file on web host?

I'm having a real tough time getting this done correctly.

I'm on a LINUX server. Control panel is H-SPHERE with WebShell as the file manager tool.

I TAR'd some files from one site then brought it over from another site. When I untar it using the WebShell tool, it seems to set all the folders/files with the same permissions, and does not retain the original permissions.

Is there a better way to do this? I tried WS_FTP_PRO, and some other tools, but i just can't get it work correctly.

Advice and insight so I can do this correctly would be great. thanks in advance.

 

Just change the ownership and owner group using chown and chgrp. Not diificult task

 

From "man tar":

or

Should help you.

 

from ssh:

Creating a tar file:

tar -cvwf file.tar myfile.txt

In the above example the system would create a tar named file.tar in the directory you currently are in. Wildcards could also be used in this command, for example: tar -cvwf file.tar *.txt would compress all txt files in the current directory.

tar -cvwf home.tar home/

In the above example command the system would create a tar file named home.tar in the directory you currently are in of the home directory.

Extracting the files from a tar file:

tar -xvwf myfile.tar

In the above example command the system would uncompress (untar) the myfile.tar file in the current directory.

tar -xvwzf myfile.tar.gz

In the above example command the system would uncompress (untar) the myfile.tar.gz file in the current directory.

source: http://r00tsecurity.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=18405

 

untar is the easiest if u have shell access questions is do u have it ???

 

nothing special just tar xvf filename.tar

 

Once the directory is untarred why not just go back and recursively change the file perms/owners to what they need to be.

tar xvf /tmp/myfile.tar /home/user/htdocs

Then recursivley change the file owners in htdocs

chown -R user:group /home/user/htdocs