[NTLUG:Discuss] untar-ing without creating one level of directories

[Leroy Tennison]

Robert Citek wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2008 10:07 AM, Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net> wrote:
>> Many man pages for GNU commands end with this note:
>>
>>> SEE ALSO
>>>        The full documentation for tar is maintained as a  Texinfo  man-
>>>        ual.   If  the  info  and tar programs are properly installed at
>>>        your site, the command
>>>
>>>               info tar
>>>
>>>        should give you access to the complete manual.
> 
> And the usual response when someone mentions info pages:
> 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/munch/munch.scream.jpg
> 
> :)
> 
> Regards,
> - Robert
> 
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Yea, but at least there is an alternative.  Just finished going through 
one of those "poorly documented" issues with the korn shell: How does 
one get the file descriptor for 'read -u'?  Fortunately I was persistent 
(or maybe just fortunate) to find two or three offhand references from 
which I was able to assemble the pieces of opening and closing an 
existing file in a shell script.