I'm trying to untar a directory. specifically, the tarred directory is the /proc/bus/usb directory.

the command line tells me that I need to "specify one of the '-Acdrtux' options". I've looked in the man pages and google, but I can't seem to get anywhere.

I have tried
"tar -xvf"
"tar -C -xvf"
"tar -CDS -xvf"
and so on...

could someone teach me how this is done? The tar file is named usb2_tar

run

file usb2_tar post what it says im thinking its compressed and the file name is not in .tar.bz2 or .tar.gz. you can name a file anything in linux it doesn't use extensions like windows

# file usb2_tar

I see now. All I had to do was RENAME the file and replace the _underscore with a .period

I'm the root user, but for somereason, I am not allowed to make the directory /proc/bus/usb.

I have a copy of the directory (I e-mailed to myself) in my /home direcory. If I try copying or moving it to /proc/bus/usb, I'm told that I cannot create the directory because it doesn't exist.

that makes no sense to me.

could someone teach me how to get around this.

-I currently have no "usb" directory in /proc/bus
-There is a full "usb" direcory in my /home directory, named "usb2"
-I want to copy or move "usb2" to "/proc/bus/usb"
-I have tried cp -rpf usb2 /proc/bus/usb

/proc does not have write permission even under root...
dr-xr-xr-x 86 root root 0 Jun 3 12:11 proc/

KC

oh darn..

I also merged your threads together since your discussing and asking about /proc directory.. so the discussion is all in one place and not scattered about.