Re: tar problem

From	Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: tar problem
Date	2024-06-10 22:56 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Sun, 09 Jun 2024 14:36:49 +0000, db wrote:

> 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

Is this a homegrown command, or does your distribution supply it?
FWIW, "del" is not a standard Unix or Linux command, and (AFAIK)
does not exist as a builtin in any Unix/Linux shell.

> ~/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

The error message implies that
a) tar can't find an input file called "test", and
b) that your tarx command doesn't expand it's argument
   into a filename that tar /can/ find.

> Why doesn't it work from bin/ ?

What shell do you use?
Do you have an alias set for tar or tarx?

-- 
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills We Trust"

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