Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 11:01:44 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: Joe Lira <joe@joe.to> Cc: Michael Berhanu <BMICK@bigpond.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tar Files Message-ID: <19990202010144.28799.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902011052010.20850-100000@c4.joe.to> of Mon, 01 Feb 1999 10:52:56 PST References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902011052010.20850-100000@c4.joe.to>
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> to compress * into filename.tar: > > tar -cvf * filename.tar Wrong on two counts. This does not compress anything (although the -z option to many versions of tar will do compression); and the syntax is wrong. As shown, it will attempt to overwrite the first file in the expansion of `*'; and it will attempt (and probably fail) to put `filename.tar' into the archive. Please take the small amount of time needed to post correct answers, especially when advising people who clearly know next to nothing and who could suffer from following erroneous advice. -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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