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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