by Hi,
I'm trying to upgrade my Xwindows from X11 to X12. I've downloaded
all of the files that I need, and I wanted to ungzip and untar them
all in one fine step. OK, so I decided to take one of the files, make
a directory under tmp (a logical place for a temporary directory???)
and work out the command there. Bottom line is that this command:
find /tmp/tmp -name *.tgz -exec gunzip {} \; | tar xfBp -
actually worked. (I was in the /tmp/tmp directory when I ran it)
Needless to say it made me feel good about getting it to work.
Now the problem: I placed all of the .tgz files (that's the way they
were stored on the net) in the /usr/X11R6 directory and substituted
/usr/X11R6 for /tmp/tmp in above, changed to the /usr/X11R6 directory
and tried to run the command. find returned an error telling me that
directories must preceed expressions. Now I think that error is
bogus, but my questions are: why isn't the command working and how
can I make it work? If it matters, I noticed that the permission of
/tmp is drwxrwxrwl (probably as it should be, but does the 'l' come
into play in this entire question?)
Many thanks,
<< Mark >>
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