14 Dec
2011
14 Dec
'11
1:42 p.m.
Now, a major annoyance I find are tarballs that
vomit files in the curr=
ent
directory instead of a subdirectory based off the name of the tar file
(usually foobar.tar will, when extracted, create a directory called fooba=
r
that contains the files; but that's a *convention* not mandatory). =20
Actually, I prefer tarfiles that put their files in the current
directory. I normalyl start by creating a suitable directory somewhere,
copying the tarfile to it and extracting it. I don't want ot used up with
my directory containing just hte tarfile and another diesctory that is
the start of the tree for the files I've extracted.
The safexst thing to do (and what I always do now) is to tar -tvf it
first Then you can see what it's goign to do and act accordingly.
-tony