From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 8 22:48:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F6CD37B400; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:48:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C706143E65; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:48:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g795mjQZ074757; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 15:18:46 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Tar not following links now? From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "Crist J. Clark" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020809053552.GA79890@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <1028857372.1886.9.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <20020809053552.GA79890@blossom.cjclark.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 09 Aug 2002 15:18:45 +0930 Message-Id: <1028872126.3108.5.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 15:05, Crist J. Clark wrote: > The "new" behavior is the correct behavior. I'm not sure when or why > things were broken in your 4.6-PRERELEASE example. The option you want > is the '-h' option. But that dereferences _all_ symlinks, not just ones on the command line. I guess I really want -H (like du has). I don't understand why it changed though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message