Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 09:33:29 -0800 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net>, "questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to Untar Group of Files? Message-ID: <002f01c1800e$73a95820$0a01a8c0@lc.ca.gov> References: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0112071152180.11244-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <002f01c17f1a$92afda40$0c01a8c0@lc.ca.gov> <20011207164717.GB1960@raggedclown.net>
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Thanks for the explaination!!! Drew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: "questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 8:47 AM Subject: Re: How to Untar Group of Files? > > Thank you for the additional perspective. I have just enough experience > > with the OS (about 10 months) to understand the power but not enough to > > know how to use it properly. In the past, I would just do them one at a > > time until I was done but now I'm forcing myself to learn how to do it > > right. And because I'm learning, I appreciate seeing the different ways > > available to do things. > > > This is because Unix system programs are written to be tools, and tools > that work well in combination with other tools. > There isn't always a one "proper" way of doing things, it often > depends on the context and on what tools you know about. > Indeed that is one of the problems, there are so many tools that > it is hard to know about the existance of all of them ! > You can be pretty certain however that just about anything you > want to do has been done by many people before - so you will > often get many replies with different solutions. > > You will also one day get replies from the dreaded (joke) > perl brigade. Perl breaks the Unix axiom "a tool should > do just one thing, and do it well". Perl does just about > everything, and does it pretty well. Unfortunately it is a > morass, a syntactic and semantic quagmire. But it runs > on almost anything, has a fanatical following, and the > money you would need to buy all the books on it is enough > to buy a small house. If you want someone to do your shopping > for you, perl probably has a module for it. > > Anyway, it awaits you.. :) > > No flames please, perl is inflammable. > > -- > Regards > Cliff > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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