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From: Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: tar problem
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:16:06 +0100
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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.

Presumably the script they are actually running is different.

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