From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 29 12:53:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4469F1065674 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:53:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from cpoproxy1-pub.bluehost.com (cpoproxy1-pub.bluehost.com [69.89.21.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DDE38FC13 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:53:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 27901 invoked by uid 0); 29 Aug 2010 12:53:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by cpoproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 29 Aug 2010 12:53:36 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=bCsvYeBRLz5oCaWXtk8GGblGvQFHSvv0wshFBBgxTpbLRwCJD3j1Iu6FjFYexoPxTsv+1uLbcANj4IDOqhtFYcfwLjv3cllx1KDq9IcN+3RaseVVj7oWVGrsRfB27YZN; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OphOB-0001TD-6g for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:53:36 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:50:42 -0600 Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:50:42 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd general questions Message-ID: <20100829125042.GB91865@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd general questions References: <874453.45134.qm@web52302.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20100826215346.7aaba141.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100828170745.GA88025@guilt.hydra> <20100828203618.45fd6be8.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100828203618.45fd6be8.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: ports database 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, 29 Aug 2010 12:53:37 -0000 --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 08:36:18PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:07:45 -0600, Chad Perrin wro= te: > >=20 > > Is that supposed to say this? > >=20 > > tar -cf ports.tar /usr/port >=20 > I think the - infront of the options string isn't neccessary for > tar, but it's optional in this case. So it is. All these years, I've completely overlooked the COMPATIBILITY section of the tar manpage. Thanks for the wake-up call. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkx6V6IACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXVyQCgk6kFByi6v3/0gE6huduGzg2l msAAoKNh1Vtxc+3BPtcG/h4PYJ9dCw/5 =v2G/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz--