From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 17 19: 9:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rtk1.rtk.net.pl (rtk1.rtk.net.pl [217.97.232.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D6D37B404 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 19:09:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ember-nt.rtk-local ([192.168.103.118] helo=ember.rtk-local) by rtk1.rtk.net.pl with smtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16y1Mz-0004TQ-00 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 04:09:57 +0200 Received: (qmail 5244 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Apr 2002 02:13:13 -0000 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 04:13:13 +0200 From: Dominik Lupinski To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what does the 'f' option do with the tar and jar commands? Message-ID: <20020418041313.A5204@ember.rtk-local> References: <4.2.0.58.20020417201006.00964c60@pop.netzero.net> <20020418014312.16524.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020418014312.16524.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com>; from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com on Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 06:43:12PM -0700 Organization: --t-r-a-n-s-h-u-m-a-n-s--> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE X-PGP-key: http://venus.wsb-nlu.edu.pl/~dlupinsk/yhpx.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 06:43:12PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: [...] > tar > f- Specifices the archivefile or tape device. The default tape device is > /dev/rmt/0. [...] > jar [...] > The jar command sends the data to the screen if the "f" option is not used. [...] > can someone explain this to me? from what I gather you have to use the f > option to tell it that the following filename or location is where you > want to store (or is it copy) the archived file? Correct > now what happens if you don't specify a location for either command? Can't you just try? :) Or read again what is written in the manual. You have already quoted answer to your question. -- 0A 0D 0A 2D 2D 20 0D 0A 44 6F 6D 69 6E 69 6B 20 ...-- ..Dominik 4C 75 70 69 6E 73 6B 69 20 2F 2F 20 79 68 70 78 Lupinski // yhpx 40 61 6C 70 68 61 2E 6E 65 74 2E 70 6C 0D 0A 2E @alpha.net.pl... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message