From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 05:04:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA37816A4D0 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 05:04:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from tatiana.utanet.at (tatiana.utanet.at [213.90.36.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3011A43D39 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 05:04:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from josef@daemon.li) Received: from plenty.utanet.at ([213.90.36.9]) by tatiana.utanet.at with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1AewJd-0006v7-00; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:04:41 +0100 Received: from dsl-21-113.utaonline.at ([81.189.21.113] helo=jenny.daemon.li) by plenty.utanet.at with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1AewJY-00079T-00; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:04:36 +0100 Received: by jenny.daemon.li (Postfix, from userid 1005) id 8766072B; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 14:04:41 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 14:04:41 +0100 From: Josef El-Rayes To: Robert Klein Message-ID: <20040109130441.GA628@jenny.daemon.li> References: <20040108181346.84AE116A4E0@hub.freebsd.org> <20040109102845.X53689@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> <20040109093311.GC311@jenny.daemon.li> <200401091127.18780.RoKlein@roklein.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401091127.18780.RoKlein@roklein.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Reply-Path: j.el-rayes@daemon.li X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 42, Issue 6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: j.el-rayes@daemon.li List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 13:04:50 -0000 --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Robert Klein wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Josef El-Rayes wrote: > > i do not think that the order of the parameters > > have any influence on the result. >=20 > No, but the filename has to be right after the f. The following=20 > commands work, and both have the same result: > In this command tar(1) tries to extract the file "v". have you noticed that i am _not_ using the '-'? tar xvfj file.tar.bz2 <- if you leave the '-' away then tar does not care about the order of the parameters. when you are using the dash before the arguments than the 'f' has to be just before the filename. tar -xvjf file.tar.bz2 <- why this is the case i have not found out, perhaps it is a features, or just a bug :) -josef --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iQEVAwUBP/6m6VnFItmnnbU8AQKcaQgAlWs2r0KCwO5DyUKV/2CymVHGmOx/lp2k OEBW1sitcz2r4lBKQ6hazX3WYNuQLeZrB4UEdiMm0FyHfkCzfQ8qBFbeeCQtQMDI ebIF8sGFCVKE3RqJGw64rFo+4FvYB1ftxtg3q+4xcjzkHilpUk3UEw+3lYXRvjJh bzPNZ0jVoxnhlsobrrd+OiVHVDlwO0flDjoU9rKZQxJ/PDWkDAGwSCNfDGrcE3EP aM+zBmfEHeo8bXDXGdSqIyBzeaukzpxHS8nyHXzbt1eIFcDmqukCmz+6xI/1lNWn y9RqHmWG+jHvn3d/UWK+Uf6JtwalupgvTgfdQWhY8rDszwROdoKcHQ== =A1oG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU--