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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:20:22 -0800
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bsdtar '--exclude pattern' problems
Message-ID:  <41AD62A6.5050605@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <41ACC7C5.8040003@orchid.homeunix.org>
References:  <41AC7636.2050605@orchid.homeunix.org> <44acsz9ogq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <41ACC7C5.8040003@orchid.homeunix.org>

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Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:
> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 
>>According to the tar(1) manual, the file parameters are supposed to
>>come after all of the option parameters.
> 
> Ah, of course! I don't know why I wrote it wrong (some months ago
> probably). Thank you.

gtar and bsdtar do parse options a little
differently, so a few people may need to
adjust their scripts.

Rationale: gtar requires the GNU
getopt library and exploits a few special
features of that library. bsdtar is designed
to work with several different getopt
libraries, so restricts itself to
somewhat more generic behavior.

Tim Kientzle



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