Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:58:49 +0200 From: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> To: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Overwrite bsd tar Message-ID: <4E7C9099.3060906@bananmonarki.se> In-Reply-To: <4E7C7695.7020602@my.gd> References: <1316777112.68517.YahooMailClassic@web111802.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <4E7C75D3.5080206@bananmonarki.se> <4E7C7695.7020602@my.gd>
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2011-09-23 14:07, Damien Fleuriot skrev: > On 9/23/11 2:04 PM, Bernt Hansson wrote: >> 2011-09-23 13:25, Esimorp E skrev: >>> >>> I would be grateful if anyone could help me out on how to overwrite >>> bsd tar with Gnu tar. >> >> Thats not a good idea. If you want to use gnu tar then gtar is the >> command for you. Or copy tar to tar.bsd and make a symlink tar> gtar. > > > Even worse, what's going to happen when some BSD specific software tries > to pass BSD specific options to gnutar ? A lot of unexpected things, that's the reason I wrote it wasn't a good idea.
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