Re: tar command dangerously written

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 05/20/05 

Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 00:07:58 -0400

In article <1116538597.164453.76270@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
 "danson" <danwatts@gmail.com> wrote:

> Guys - thanks a lot for the responses. Very clear and enlightening! I
> think I can modify my thinking as suggested so that this does not
> happen to me again!
>
> My original point still stands though that it would make good sense to
> prompt an overwrite with the tar command - most user friendly tools
> will prompt on an overwrite (unless a 'force' is used).

Which Unix tools are you talking about? Most of them *don't* have such
a prompt, unless the file is write-protected. E.g.

cp foo bar

will happily overwrite bar. 

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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