Re: tar problem

On Mon, 10 Jun 2024 22:56:55 -0000 (UTC), Lew Pitcher wrote:

On Sun, 09 Jun 2024 14:36:49 +0000, 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

 
Is this a homegrown command, or does your distribution supply it?
FWIW, "del" is not a standard Unix or Linux command, and (AFAIK) does
not exist as a builtin in any Unix/Linux shell.
 

~/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

 
The error message implies that a) tar can't find an input file called
"test", and b) that your tarx command doesn't expand it's argument
   into a filename that tar /can/ find.
 

Why doesn't it work from bin/ ?

 
What shell do you use?
Do you have an alias set for tar or tarx?

del is an alias for rm -i, saving me that onerous -i {;]
bash, under Kubuntu
No alias set for tar or tarx

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db