Okay, for those of you for whom the above is not sufficient, let me elaborate:
I use the following idiom to expand archives of various sorts: $ unzip archive.zip && rm archive.zip $ gunzip archive.gz && rm archive.gz $ bunzip2 archive.bz2 && rm archive.bz2 So good, so far. However, unrar, in its transcendent hatefulness, doesn't work that way. Oh no, of course not! No, the magic invocation is: $ unrar x archive.rar && rm archive.rar Fine, I generally remember to type the extra 'x', but what happens when I omit it? unrar helpfully prints out an error/usage message. That's nice. Helpful, even. But then it returns a 0 status code. That's not so NICE! You didn't succeed, you moronic program! You FAILED to do what I asked! And thanks to your deceitful ways, I've just wiped out the archive, and now must re-download it! AARGH! -- Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com> The one thing I've learned about freedom of expression is that you really ought to keep that sort of thing to yourself. -- Scott Adams, _I'm Not Anti-Business, I'm Anti-Idiot_
