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From: db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: tar problem
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:35:02 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 14:36:49 -0000 (UTC), 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/ ?

Red face time.
I just found out that I have an alias called tarx in
my .bashrc. In fact, someone asked me about this and
I answered in the negative, without checking. My apologies!

-- 
db