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Simplifying a little...
Authored by: pmccann on Feb 15, '05 06:47:59PM

So many sudo-nyms, so little time. Just issue a "sudo -s" at the start and then an "exit" at the end. In fact most of the commands given shouldn't even require the sudo unless you've set very restrictive permissions on the /usr/local/src directory tree.

Instead of the hideous "sudo gunzip -c blah.tar.gz | sudo tar xf - " sequence, maybe a nice simple

tar zxf filename.tar.gz

(given the "sudo -s" at the start, as mentioned above).

Cheers,
Paul



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