Re: [tlug] Re: undo a tar

[Josh Glover <tlug@example.com>]

Quoth Shawn (Fri 2004-08-06 03:43:33PM +0900):

> <shameless-rip-off>
>  Quoth Josh:
> </shameless-rip-off>

LOL

My attribution line used to be:

Quoth Foo Bar, and verily thus (Day YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS TZ):

But then I decided that many of the things I wanted to quote were not
at all "verily". ;)

> >A-ha. Sorry, I was not paying attention. You could always:
> >
> >tar tzf ~/downloads/OOo_1.1.1_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz | \
> >perl -ne '/^[^\/]+\/(.+)$/ and unlink $1'
> 
> Heh heh, worked nicely and an apology from him for his taking his time to 
> help me out of the goodness of his heart thrown in at no extra charge.  
> Wow, open source -- gotta love it.  Thanks.

No need to apologise. The reason that I took the time to answer you is
that I could do it with a minimal time investment, and you asked for help
in an appropriate way. Plus, when my first suggestion did not work, I had
the added motivation of not looking like I don't know what I am talking
about! ;)

The force at work here is community, not Open Source (though Open Source
is often motivated by the same force). I give help when I can and when I
have time to give back to the community (in this case, TLUG) that nurt-
ured me from a Linux n008 to a somewhat capable novice in the Way of
Unix (see the writings of Master Foo[1]). Since there is virtually no
way I can actually help Chris Sekiya and The Brothers Doughty and Steve
Turnbull, I try to help out where I can, to sort of carry on in their
grand tradition (and no, here I am not speaking of rum, sodomy, and the
lash[2]).

Sorry, it is a silly time of day. :)

Cheers,
Josh

[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/
[2] http://www.allgreatquotes.com/funny_quotes57.shtml

-- 
Josh Glover

Gentoo Developer (http://dev.gentoo.org/~jmglov/)
Tokyo Linux Users Group Listmaster (http://www.tlug.jp/)

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