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Article #3042Re: Manipulating tar.Z's
From: Sherwood Botsford
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:39
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:39
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Allen B writes > I'm not sold yet. The Workspace seems to always work in > place, which is very bad in my situation. I don't want to > uncompress/tar things in the Archives every time I or one > of my users wants to look at them- and you don't want me to > either. > The more I use Nextstep, the more of a unix geek I get. (Ok, I spend half my time in a Stuart window...) Anyway, I define the following two aliases: alias zcatt 'zcat \!* | tar -tf -' alias zcatx 'zcat \!* | tar -xf -' Advantage: I can open a Stuart window on the machine that actually has the hard disk, type zcatt file.tar.Z, and not have to spew the stuff back and forth across the net. It also doesn't paralyse my workspace while it's crunching away.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!news From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) Subject: Re: Manipulating tar.Z's Message-ID: <1992Oct14.233923.2341@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: fenris.space.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <Bw0t4t.DC6@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:39:23 GMT Lines: 19