Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 09:42:41 -0700 (PDT) From: jblaine@mitre.org To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/19698: /usr/sbin/tar --help does not match 'man tar' for option '--exclude' Message-ID: <20000704164241.F2BE637B997@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 19698
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: /usr/sbin/tar --help does not match 'man tar' for option '--exclude'
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Jul 04 09:50:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jeff Blaine
>Release: 4.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
The MITRE Corp.
>Environment:
FreeBSD kickflop 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #4: Sun Jul 2 12:37:52 EDT 2000 root@kickflop:/usr/src/sys/compile/BUNK i386
>Description:
tar --help reports:
--exclude FILE exclude file FILE
man tar reports:
--exclude pattern Exclude files matching the pattern (don't
extract them, don't add them, don't list
them).
The man page is correct.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Fix the help-printing-section of the source code for tar :)
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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