From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 25 23:04:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0DA216A41F for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:04:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from smtpout1.ywave.com (ycomradius.yelmtel.com [216.227.100.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C869F43D60 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:04:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: (qmail 31709 invoked by uid 502); 25 Dec 2005 23:04:05 -0000 Received: from dsl-12-178-97-72.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@12.178.97.72) by 0 with SMTP; 25 Dec 2005 23:04:05 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 12.178.97.72 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl-12-178-97-72.ywave.com Message-ID: <43AF2564.1020208@ywave.com> Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 15:04:04 -0800 From: Micah User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051224) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Teo De Las Heras References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the M in tar Mcvf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:04:08 -0000 Teo De Las Heras wrote: > I looked through the man pages and online, but I can't find information on > what the M is for in 'tar Mcvf'. I constantly see this as a way to archive > / backup files. > > Teo That's a gnu tar option, not a bsd tar option. I did a google for gnu tar man and got http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/tar.1.html which will explain it. HTH, Micah