[Cialug] Can someone translate for me?

[Theron Conrey]

actually the first command changes who can do what with the file.

for the first command a quicky explanation is there are three groups.  the
owner, the group, and then everyone else.
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.
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.

for non techies.

1) change the permissions to the file so that you can....
2) decompress (or unzip) the file to the directory it resides in.


-theron

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Rob Miller <robarooney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can someone translate this *nix phrase into "instructional English"?  TIA.
>
>
> *In the FooBar2.1 directory:*
>
> **
>
> 1.  chmod 777 Foobar_42_X26LMAQ.tar
>
> 2.  tar –xvf Foobar_42_X26LMAQ.tar
>
>
> Would the translation be something like:
>
> 1.  Copy the compressed Foobar file (*.tar) to the FooBar2.1 directory.
> 2.  Set the file permissions using the chmod 777 command.
> 3.  Extract the compressed contents of the Foobar file (*.tar) using the
> tar -xvf command.
>
> Again, thanks for the help.
>
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