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From: "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: tar problem
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:00:16 +0200
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On 2024-06-12 21:16, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> writes:
>> * db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com>
>> | ~/bin> tarx ../tarfiles/NumNotes
>> | tar (child): ../tarfiles/NumNotes: Cannot open: No such file or directory
>> --<snip-snip>--
>> | ~/bin> ls ../tarfiles/Num*
>> | ../tarfiles/NumNotes.tar.gz
>>>
>> | The last line proves that it's lying.
>>
>> Why do you expect that if you tell tar to use a file named 'NumNotes'
>> that it should use a file named 'NumNotes.tar.gz' instead?
> 
> The script they quoted does “tar -xf $1.tar.gz”, i.e. it adds .tar.gz.

Thus it is not obeying the -x in bash.

> 
> Presumably the script they are actually running is different.

Yes.


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Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.