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On Sun, 09 Jun 2024 19:12:52 +0000, Robert Heller wrote:

> At Sun, 09 Jun 2024 18:22:38 +0100 Richard Kettlewell
> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
> 
>> db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> writes:
>> > I like to make life easy so I wrote a one-line script for extracting
>> > the contents of a tar file. I copied it into the /bin directory so I
>> > can run it from anywhere.
>> > I tried it out in a test directory where I had it, and where there is
>> > a small test tar file. Here is the dialogue from running it, using 
>> > both the local script and the one in /bin:
>> >
>> > ~/tartest> ls tarx  test.tar.gz ~/tartest> cat tarx tar -xf $1.tar.gz
>> > ~/tartest> cat ~/bin/tarx tar -xf $1.tar.gz ~/tartest> ./tarx test
>> > ~/tartest> ls tarx  test  test.tar.gz ~/tartest> del -r test
>> > ~/tartest> tarx test tar (child): test: Cannot open: No such file or
>> > directory tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar:
>> > Child returned status 2 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>> >
>> > Why doesn't it work from bin/ ?
> 
> What does 'which tarx' show?  Does it show /bin/tarx?
> 
> Note: you should *never* put random programs in /bin (or even /usr/bin).
>  The only programs/files in these directories should be ones installed
> by your package management system.  /bin is reserved for core / early
> boot programs and others would be in /usr/bin.
> 
> Locally provided programs should be in either /usr/local/bin or /opt/bin
> (depending on your file system usage philosiphy).  These directories
> can/should be added to your $PATH.  *Personally* provided programs
> should be in $HOME/bin, and this directory can be added to your $PATH as
> well.
> 
> 
>> Probably /bin/tarx isn't the same as ./tarx. What does
>>   cat /bin/tarx
>> show?
>>

I already showed that, the two cat.. statements.

Be that as it may, but this works with other single-line
scripts I use. E.g. inside the directory Newstuff/ i just
typed in

~/Newstuff> mvindex

which moves a newly generated file called index.htm into another
directory. The command sits in ~/bin, as seen here
~/Newstuff> more ~/bin/mvindex
mv index.htm ~/homepage/pages/

And that worked.
Ar well, the easy way out is simply to plant the tarx script
in the two tar file directories I have, and run it with ./

-- 
db

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  Re: tar problem Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-06-09 18:22 +0100
    Re: tar problem Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2024-06-09 19:12 +0000
      Re: tar problem db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2024-06-10 11:34 +0000
        Re: tar problem Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2024-06-10 12:35 +0000
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                Re: tar problem Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> - 2024-06-12 18:49 +0200
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                Re: tar problem Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2024-06-12 21:08 +0000
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