<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 3:07\u202fPM Ronald Barnes via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Anton Avramov wrote on 2025-06-04 11:14:<br><br>
Normally I'd use a subshell and `cd`:<br>
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( cd / ; tar ... etc/systemd/system/mailman* )<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I used to do that a long time ago, until I fat-fingered a directory or two and got a tar of something I didn't want. Now I do this:<br><br>(cd /dir/dir/dir && tar .....)</div><div><br></div><div>That way if the directory doesn't exist the tar doesn't go off wildly. </div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>John Van Ostrand<br></div><div>At large on sabbatical<br></div><br></div></div></div>