On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:08:08 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:59:01AM EST, Adam Porter wrote: > > I've read the man page, googled this list and the rest of the Net, but I > > still can't figure out why this doesn't work: > > > > $ tar xjf *.tar.bz2 > > tar: beryl-core-0.2.0.tar.bz2: Not found in archive the first file represents the archive and the next ones the files you want to extract thus tar xjf foo.tar.bz2 bar.txt would try to extract bar.txt from the archive foo.tar.bz2 What you did will only work if there is only one archive in the directory. To achieve what you want (extract all archives in the directory) you need to do: for file in *.tar.bz2 ; do tar xjf $file ; done > > > > Am I doing something wrong? Why can't tar handle a wildcard list like that? > > As a refugee from DOS/Windos/OS/2 etc etc.....I have a question. > > What is Linuxs "obsession" with tar ? What is (are) the advantage(s) of tar > over ZIP/RAR for example. > tar is almost as old as the computer (it's been around since magnetic tapes) and it represents the *nix philosophy of do one task and do it will What you do here is separate the work of grouping together files (tar) and compressing them (most commonly gzip and bzip2 in this case there is also compress and a few others which are rarely used these days). zip does all the work in one place, it's also been around for ages but it only more recently propagated to *nix. I don't know the difference in efficient, but zip has the drawback that it doesn't store file permissions, owner/group or links and thus isn't very good for *nix (try to zip a directory and then extract it, it most probably will all have the executable bit set, mode 755, and be owned by whomever extracted the files). rar is not free (in any sense), if you read the package description it says that it's shareware and needs to be registered if you want to continue using it. I think that it also can't store owner, permission and links. > > > - -- > Cheers > > Frank > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFF/BJo8Rvr3Tn207ARAlyeAJ9mDVdRzgDCcCLcqffqqjGkeCmCDwCeJ1kx > R0lDV4oAU9WHWT9TNmE3JG0= > =Y+G7 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
