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From: Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: tar problem
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:38:38 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:35:02 +0000, db wrote:

> 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.
[snip]
>> 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!

Apology accepted. :-)

Glad you found (and presumably fixed) your problem.

-- 
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills We Trust"