Re: tar problem

On Mon, 10 Jun 2024 23:00:02 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 2024-06-10 14:35, Lew Pitcher wrote:

On Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:34:30 +0000, db wrote:
 

On Sun, 09 Jun 2024 19:12:52 +0000, Robert Heller wrote:
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At Sun, 09 Jun 2024 18:22:38 +0100 Richard Kettlewell
<invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> writes:

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:
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~/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
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Why doesn't it work from bin/ ?

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What does 'which tarx' show?  Does it show /bin/tarx?
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Note: you should *never* put random programs in /bin (or even /usr/bin).
  The only programs/files in these directories should be ones installed
by your package management system.  /bin is reserved for core / early
boot programs and others would be in /usr/bin.
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Locally provided programs should be in either /usr/local/bin or /opt/bin
(depending on your file system usage philosiphy).  These directories
can/should be added to your $PATH.  *Personally* provided programs
should be in $HOME/bin, and this directory can be added to your $PATH as
well.
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Probably /bin/tarx isn't the same as ./tarx. What does
   cat /bin/tarx
show?
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I already showed that, the two cat.. statements.

 
Sorry, but no, you didn't.
 
You showed us
   ~/tartest> cat tarx
which gave the contents of ~/tartest/tarx, and
   ~/tartest> cat ~/bin/tarx
which gave the contents of ~/bin/tarx
 
You haven't shown the contents of /bin/tarx

 
There is no proof that such a file exists.

Agreed. However, the OP asserts that he (quote)

copied it into the /bin directory

and gives an example where he executes it from
(presumably, the /bin directory) in his path.

Nor have you shown that there is no other version of your
tarx script in your PATH.

 
That is the question to ask first :-)

That's the question I /did/ ask first :-)

--
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills We Trust"