Re: tar problem

From	candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: tar problem
Date	2024-06-12 06:45 +0000
Organization	the-candyden-of-code
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Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote at 19:12 this Sunday (GMT):
> 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.

Technically, /bin is usually a symlink to /usr/bin, but still yeah never
put stuff in there.

> 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.

I think $HOME/.local/bin is a common one too.

>> 
>> Probably /bin/tarx isn't the same as ./tarx. What does
>>   cat /bin/tarx
>> show?
>> 
>


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