Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 07:34:46 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: Daniel Ebdrup Jensen <debdrup@FreeBSD.org>, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 4b1e2c2f77d3 - main - bsdinstall(8): Usage example of tar doesn't work Message-ID: <73611EC9-3C63-40F6-B7BD-6D10300D0C21@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20220324110546.jyd2lno4yhqsv4dl@geroi.local> References: <AD3F2919-8B23-496C-971F-0902D6137C12.ref@yahoo.com> <AD3F2919-8B23-496C-971F-0902D6137C12@yahoo.com> <20220324110546.jyd2lno4yhqsv4dl@geroi.local>
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On 2022-Mar-24, at 04:05, Daniel Ebdrup Jensen <debdrup@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 12:53:19AM -0700, Mark Millard wrote: >> Not objecting, just noting that for: >> >> -.Dl tar xvf -C release-media FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso >> +.Dl tar -C release-media -xvf FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso >> >> I'd expect that the following would have been an alternative >> that would have worked: >> >> .Dl tar -xvf -C release-media FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso >> >> (so: just adding a "-" before xvf). >> >> === >> Mark Millard >> marklmi at yahoo.com >> > > Hi Mark, > > I tested this before accepting the review, and it doesn't work. Yea, after a nights sleep that was obvious to me on waking up. I was going to send a note about that but your reply was in my mailbox. Basically, for -f the next thing is always a file name, as documented in the notation: -f file, --file file (-C is similar.) Sorry for the noise. > If it did work previously (which I didn't test), it's something > that's changed upstream. > > Yours, > Daniel Ebdrup Jensen === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
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