Date: 01 Aug 2000 13:13:03 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: excluding a file/dir from a tar file Message-ID: <44lmyg29cw.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: David Kirchner's message of "Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:45:08 -0700 (PDT)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008010942210.77341-100000@web2.sea.nwserv.com>
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David Kirchner <dpk@nwserv.com> writes: > The GNU-style (--[foo]) flags will not work if you do not include a - > before the single-char flags. Also, as someone else mentioned, the > output file should be immediately after the '-f'. So for the above to work > you'd need: > > IMO, the tar page should be updated to reflect this (I don't know how to > do that, myself) It's a tricky thing to do, because we get the tar man page from the Gnu project, along with the program itself. Changes should preferably go through them, but one must remember that they also treat man pages as secondary to the info pages. In any case, my own opinion is that the man page's comment that "you cannot mix bundled flags and --style flags" and its related examples, cover this as well as we can reasonably ask for. [I *am* amused that I never noticed this limitation on my own...] Be well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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