IRIX Commands 101 - New Wiki Article
Hello fellas,
https://wiki.irixnet.org/irix_commands_101 I'm building a new article for those who have encountered syntactical or flag-based differences of various IRIX commands. Please feel free to offer suggestions or sign up at the wiki for an account and add them (Note, I need to approve the account, so you gotta wait for me to reach out)
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(This post was last modified: 07-20-2019, 01:38 AM by Raion.)
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Raion
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07-20-2019, 01:22 AM |
RE: IRIX Commands 101 - New Wiki Article
The thing that always trips me up (coming from Linux) is that GNU tar supports z, j, and J options (among others) to filter through the gzip, bzip2, and xz compression programs respectively. IRIX tar doesn't support any of the compression options. You have to use a pipe or an intermediate file to manually compress/decompress after/before the tar command.
The gzip, bzip2, and xz utilities aren't even part of the base IRIX install. You need to install the SGI freeware packages (which IIRC do not include xz), or Nekoware, or compile them from source.
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07-20-2019, 08:07 PM |
RE: IRIX Commands 101 - New Wiki Article
Good suggestion.
I'm the system admin of this site. Private security technician, licensed locksmith, hack of a c developer and vintage computer enthusiast.
https://contrib.irixnet.org/raion/ -- contributions and pieces that I'm working on currently.
https://codeberg.org/SolusRaion -- Code repos I control
Technical problems should be sent my way.
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