Messages in this thread | | | From | CaT <> | Subject | Re: Tar ... | Date | Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:08:08 +1100 (EST) |
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Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote the following: > > On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Riley Williams wrote: > > [mumble] > > I most certainly DID try doing "man tar" and found the very fact I > > pointed out clearly stated therein. I've just done so again, and I > > quote from the tar manpage: > > > > Q> OTHER OPTIONS > > Q> : > > Q> -f, --file [HOSTNAME:]F > > Q> use archive file or device F (default /dev/rmt0) > > > > Perhaps you can advise whether that comment is in YOUR tar manpage as > > well? > > > > That's in most any tar manpage, and is just plain wrong. I don't think > I've ever seen a GNU tar where that was true (a SunOS 4.x tar yes, but not > a GNU tar). tar --help will tell you the default for your tar (at the > end of the paragraph about not doing posix archives, starting "*This* > `tar'").
Just to add to this pointless thread... :) If I knew that:
bunzip2 <file> | tar -xv
worked on some boxes while
bunzip2 <file> | tar -xvf -
worked on all (or more) I know which one I'd give out as an answer to a query.
Better still, I'd answer 'man tar' and 'man bzip2' or tar --help and bzip2 --help and tell them to contact me if they still have a specific hassle. Might even provide some additional info which would help acquire clue from the helpfiles.
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