14 Dec
2011
14 Dec
'11
4:17 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 06:44:12PM -0800, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
A thousand times YES. I always tar tvf a tarchive before I tar xf it.
Amen, brother.
Because while most people get it right, there are the occasional idiots
who fuck it up. And beware of the blue air you'll be causing because
you didn't check before blindly untarring ...
Kind regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
Now, a major annoyance I find are tarballs that vomit
files in the current
directory instead of a subdirectory based off the name of the tar file
(usually foobar.tar will, when extracted, create a directory called foobar
that contains the files; but that's a *convention* not mandatory).
YES.