> On 4/3/19 9:54 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > >> On 4/3/19 9:37 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > >>> I have a theme in xfce on my laptop that doesn't exist on my desktop. > >>> I'm trying to copy the theme from the laptop to the desktop. I > >>> compressed the directory Numix, used sftp to copy the .tar.gz file, > >>> and am trying to extract the directory. I get this error message: > >>> > >>> tar: Numix/gtk-3.0/assets: Cannot open: File exists > >>> tar: Numix/gtk-3.20/assets: Cannot open: File exists > >>> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors > >>> > >>> What's going on here? > > I suspect these are directories and for some reason due > > to the way you wrote the tar creation command you ended > > up putting 2 copies of these directories in the tar file. > > To create the tar file I used the GUI. I right-clicked on the directory > Numix and clicked on "Create Archive..." I don't know how it did it. > > > You can check this with: > > tar tvf <filename> | grep Numix/gtk- | grep assets > > > > You probably get 2 lines for each of the above files. > > That produces a long list of files, but none of them seem to be exact > duplicates. The closest are: > > lrwxrwxrwx rsteff/rsteff????? 0 2019-04-03 09:32 Numix/gtk-3.0/assets -> > ../assets > lrwxrwxrwx rsteff/rsteff????? 0 2019-04-03 09:32 Numix/gtk-3.20/assets > -> ../assets
Ah, there is a clue.. they are symlinks.. what exact options did you use on your tar create and tar extract commands? Specifically I am concerned about -h. If you evaluate what that sym links above point at they both point at a file called Numix/assets that is infact an exact duplicate. Now why is tar complaining about that? The only think I can think of would be the -h option saying to derefernce links and store the data. > This is a weird thing that doesn't seem to have prevented what I needed > done, so If I don't find an answer I won't be too bummed. > > Thanks for your ideas. > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > -- Rod Grimes [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
