missed? :) I was just "translating" not "translating and adding". <div><br></div><div>If you're looking for a way to do this differently, what Josh is saying is they way I'd go as well.</div>
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<div>What Theron is missing here is that the chmod command changes the file permission and has nothing to do with the extraction in step 2. If you have the permission to do a chmod, you already have ownership permission and can likely read the file.
If you cannot, you just need a "chmod o+r", not a "chmod 777". If you need to control the permissions of the files being extracted, you need to set a UMASK, not "chmod 777".<br>
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There is a security issue here that should be addressed before the documentation is written.
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<div>actually the first command changes who can do what with the file.
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<div>for the first command a quicky explanation is there are three groups. the owner, the group, and then everyone else.</div>
<div>basically changing the permissions to 777 allows EVERYONE (owner, group, and everyone) to do everything (read,write, execute) to that file. unrelated: triple sevens always scare me a bit.</div>
<div>the second unpacks the file in the current directory (because no path is given). the x = decompress, the v = tell me ALL about it (verbose), the f = don't ask me questions, just f do it.</div>
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<div>1) change the permissions to the file so that you can....</div>
<div>2) decompress (or unzip) the file to the directory it resides in.</div>
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<div>Can someone translate this *nix phrase into "instructional English"? TIA.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10pt">In the FooBar2.1 directory:</span></b></p>
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</span>chmod 777 Foobar_42_X26LMAQ.tar</span></p>
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</span>tar –xvf Foobar_42_X26LMAQ.tar</span></p>
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<div>Would the translation be something like:</div>
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<div>1. Copy the compressed Foobar file (*.tar) to the FooBar2.1 directory.</div>
<div>2. Set the file permissions using the chmod 777 command.</div>
<div>3. Extract the compressed contents of the Foobar file (*.tar) using the tar -xvf command.</div>
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<div>Again, thanks for the help.</div>
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