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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers tar xzCf --mode doesn't work. Post 302559346 by volbod on Monday 26th of September 2011 10:49:38 PM
Old 09-26-2011
Yes. Looks like I missed the point that the --mode is applicable only while "adding" the files and not during extraction.

Code:
[ ~/test]$ !touch
touch x y
[ ~/test]$ !ch
chmod 777 x y
[ ~/test]$ ls -l x y 
-rwxrwxrwx 1  g660 0 Sep 26 19:46 x 
-rwxrwxrwx 1  g660 0 Sep 26 19:46 y 
[ ~/test]$ umask
22
[ ~/test]$ tar cvzf a.tar.gz . --mode a-w
./
./x
./y
./a.tar.gz
[ ~/test]$ tar -tvzf a.tar.gz 
dr-xr-xr-x /g660     0 2011-09-26 19:46:50 ./
-r-xr-xr-x /g660     0 2011-09-26 19:46:50 ./x
-r-xr-xr-x /g660     0 2011-09-26 19:46:50 ./y
-r--r--r-- /g660     0 2011-09-26 19:47:07 ./a.tar.gz
[ ~/test]$

And if I need to be doubly sure that while untarring the "w" permissions are indeed knocked out, then i just need to set the umask as 222.

Was hoping to be able to provide the umask as part of the "tar" command (to untar) itself ; instead of setting umask to 222 and resetting it back to the original value.
 

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XmScrollVisible(library call)											     XmScrollVisible(library call)

NAME

       XmScrollVisible -- A ScrolledWindow function that makes an invisible
	descendant of a ScrolledWindow work area visible

SYNOPSIS

       #include <Xm/ScrolledW.h>
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DESCRIPTION

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		 Specifies the margin to establish between the left or right edge of the widget and the associated edge  of  the  viewport.   This
		 margin is established only if the widget must be moved horizontally to make it visible.

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		 Specifies  the  margin  to  establish between the top or bottom edge of the widget and the associated edge of the viewport.  This
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