Tzafrir Cohen
Fri, 21 Sep 2001 08:58:36 -0700
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Should we use zip instead of tar.gz ? > Should we cover archives at all in this lecture? No. tar archives are more common than zip archives. The tar command also behaves more like a "good unix command". If an archive is to be shown, it should be tar. > > - Making backups of all the files: > for I in *.c ; do cp $I $I.bak ; done > (this diverts into shell scripting, but we should do it to > demonstrate the power of the UNIX shell) One thing that is quite different is the behaviour of '*'. e.g: xhy 'cp *.a *.b' won't work and may cause unexpected results. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]