Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:47:46 +0000 | From | menion <> | Subject | Re: Tar ... |
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CaT wrote: > > 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.
I usually have to use bunzip2 -c <file> | tar x[v]
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