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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Failed to use find-tar-gzip together Post 302765041 by bakunin on Friday 1st of February 2013 10:49:45 AM
Old 02-01-2013
Actually this should have done what you (and we) expected it to do, but when you insist in naming a gzipped tar-file "*.tar" the OS will not put any obstacles before you.

This means: replace "> something.tar" with "something.tar.gz" and - voilá!

You will find out that the output you named ".tar" is no tar file at all when you try to untar it. It probably will complain about some "checksum error", which is, because it simply is no tar-file. But if you try to unpack it by:

Code:
mv your.tar your.tar.gz
gzip -cd your.tar.gz | tar -xf -

You will notice that this works. (gzip is just a bit picky about file extensions)

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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CPAN::Perl::Releases(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 CPAN::Perl::Releases(3pm)

NAME
CPAN::Perl::Releases - Mapping Perl releases on CPAN to the location of the tarballs VERSION
version 0.60 SYNOPSIS
use CPAN::Perl::Releases qw[perl_tarballs]; my $perl = '5.14.0'; my $hashref = perl_tarballs( $perl ); print "Location: ", $_, " " for values %{ $hashref }; DESCRIPTION
CPAN::Perl::Releases is a module that contains the mappings of all "perl" releases that have been uploaded to CPAN to the "authors/id/" path that the tarballs reside in. This is static data, but newer versions of this module will be made available as new releases of "perl" are uploaded to CPAN. FUNCTIONS
"perl_tarballs" Takes one parameter, a "perl" version to search for. Returns an hashref on success or "undef" otherwise. The returned hashref will have a key/value for each type of tarball. A key of "tar.gz" indicates the location of a gzipped tar file and "tar.bz2" of a bzip2'd tar file. The values will be the relative path under "authors/id/" on CPAN where the indicated tarball will be located. perl_tarballs( '5.14.0' ); Returns a hashref like: { "tar.bz2" => "J/JE/JESSE/perl-5.14.0.tar.bz2", "tar.gz" => "J/JE/JESSE/perl-5.14.0.tar.gz" } Not all "perl" releases had "tar.bz2", but only a "tar.gz". SEE ALSO
<http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/> <http://search.cpan.org/faq.html#Is_there_a_API?> AUTHOR
Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Chris Williams. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-06-20 CPAN::Perl::Releases(3pm)
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