Re: tar problem

On 2024-06-09 at 16:36 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/ ?

Does it work if you specify the full path of the executable in ~/bin/,
i.e. '/home/db/bin/tarx test'?
If it does, what do 'type -a tarx' and 'hash -t tarx' commands return?