From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 1 10:13:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56E0F37C030 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:13:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lowell@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA10176; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:13:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: excluding a file/dir from a tar file X-No-Archive: yes References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 01 Aug 2000 13:13:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: David Kirchner's message of "Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:45:08 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: <44lmyg29cw.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Kirchner writes: > The GNU-style (--[foo]) flags will not work if you do not include a - > before the single-char flags. Also, as someone else mentioned, the > output file should be immediately after the '-f'. So for the above to work > you'd need: > > IMO, the tar page should be updated to reflect this (I don't know how to > do that, myself) It's a tricky thing to do, because we get the tar man page from the Gnu project, along with the program itself. Changes should preferably go through them, but one must remember that they also treat man pages as secondary to the info pages. In any case, my own opinion is that the man page's comment that "you cannot mix bundled flags and --style flags" and its related examples, cover this as well as we can reasonably ask for. [I *am* amused that I never noticed this limitation on my own...] Be well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message