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From: Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: tar problem
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2024 16:01:21 -0000 (UTC)
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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
> ~/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/ ?

Are you certain that you are running the right tarx?

What does your $PATH look like? Is there a tarx executable
in any of the directories /before/ your ~/bin in your PATH?
If so, what do /they/ look like?



-- 
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills We Trust"