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Re: untar.m on Solaris with non-GNU tar
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Bill Denney |
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Re: untar.m on Solaris with non-GNU tar |
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Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:20:40 -0400 (EDT) |
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, John Swensen wrote:
I was trying to install octave-forge packages on a Solaris machine and
kept getting a "tar: tape read error" and after digging found out that
it is because the Solaris provided tar executable does not include the
capability to gunzip *and* untar from a single 'tar' call. Would it be
possible to split the gunzip and tar process into 2 calls to accomodate?
I'm working on something that will fix this. It will use the command:
sprintf("(cd \"%s\"; gzip -d -c \"%s\" | tar -x -v)", directory, filename);
Bill
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- untar.m on Solaris with non-GNU tar, John Swensen, 2006/10/20
- Re: untar.m on Solaris with non-GNU tar,
Bill Denney <=
- Re: untar.m on Solaris with non-GNU tar, Bill Denney, 2006/10/20
- Re: untar.m on Solaris with non-GNU tar, John W. Eaton, 2006/10/20
- Re: untar.m on Solaris with non-GNU tar, Bill Denney, 2006/10/20
- Re: untar.m on Solaris with non-GNU tar, Bill Denney, 2006/10/20
- Re: untar.m on Solaris with non-GNU tar, John W. Eaton, 2006/10/20
- Re: untar.m on Solaris with non-GNU tar, Bill Denney, 2006/10/20
- Re: untar.m on Solaris with non-GNU tar, John W. Eaton, 2006/10/24