Hi Rich, > After some time (may be a few files, may be one hundred) my script's > attempts to untar files fail with exit status 2. I have scoured the > web for an explanation of exit status 2 and only found one comment
Possible exit codes of GNU tar are described in section 3.1 of the manual. You will find an online copy here: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/Synopsis.html#IDX28 The code 2 means fatal error. Before exiting with this code, tar prints detailed description of the error on standard error. Please, examine it. > #Capture the directory name from the output of the download > dirname=$(tar -xzvf $download) That looks strange to me. This command can produce megabytes of output, are you sure you wish to tuck them all into a shell variable? Regards, Sergey
