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From: marrgol <marrgol@address.invalid>
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Subject: Re: tar problem
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 19:33:33 +0200
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On 2024-06-09 at 16:36 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/ ?

Does it work if you specify the full path of the executable in ~/bin/,
i.e. '/home/db/bin/tarx test'?
If it does, what do 'type -a tarx' and 'hash -t tarx' commands return?