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From: Andrey Alekseyev <uitm@zenon.net>
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Subject: Re: minor annoyances
In-Reply-To: <20020820220133.GA10260@tp.databus.com> from Barney Wolff at "Aug
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> Re tar, that dot at the end is saying back up the whole directory.

Well, yes. I apologize, I should be a bug fixed later in tar.
Version 1.11.2 (which I believe was the previous tar shipped with
FreeBSD) just ignores the trailing dot while v1.13.25 picks it up
and uses it, ignoring -T option.

> Re & &&, other shells (ksh, and I believe sh on other OS flavors)
> have never taken it.  Add () around the stuff before the &&.

I primarily meant compatibility issue. I always assumed this as
a feature. So I was wrong for a long time;)

Thanks.


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Andrey Alekseyev. Zenon N.S.P.

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