On Sunday, December 10, 2017 at 10:12:38 AM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote: > I was sending some files to some students. > Since it was more than one, the natural choice was a tarball. > [I believe that since it was a very tiny total space I did not compress the > tarball… but I dont remember this part exactly] > The point is that instead of sending a stuff.tgz or stuff.tar file I sent a > file > called just stuff; ie I must have done: > $ tar xvf stuff directory > rather than the more normal > $ tar xvf stuff.tar directory
Er… Not xvf of course but cvf [And yeah the v is not necessary] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
