Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 22:21:13 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pax weirdness (bug?) Message-ID: <199804090521.WAA00354@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Apr 1998 20:31:30 CDT." <199804090131.UAA11524@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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> > Try this: > > > > % cat /cdrom/info/info.* | zcat | pax -r -w -v tmpdir > > > > Be quick with ^C. > > > > Any ideas? Known bogon? Fixes? (Nothing intuitive, anyway.) > > What's so weird about it? It appears you have invoked "copy" mode using > "-r -w" Yup. Operator error it is. I couldn't imagine such a mode of operation being useful, so I assumed it did what I wanted instead. Error. > I think "cat /cdrom/info/info.[a-z][a-z] | zcat | (cd tmpdir; pax -r -v)" is > what it takes to extract the files. You can use substitution expressions to prepend a path to the begging of extracted names - I remember having done that much before. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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