Re: Tar ...
menion (menion@mindless.com)
Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:47:46 +0000
CaT wrote:
>
> Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote the following:
> >
> > On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
> >
> > [mumble]
> > > I most certainly DID try doing "man tar" and found the very fact I
> > > pointed out clearly stated therein. I've just done so again, and I
> > > quote from the tar manpage:
> > >
> > > Q> OTHER OPTIONS
> > > Q> :
> > > Q> -f, --file [HOSTNAME:]F
> > > Q> use archive file or device F (default /dev/rmt0)
> > >
> > > Perhaps you can advise whether that comment is in YOUR tar manpage as
> > > well?
> > >
> >
> > That's in most any tar manpage, and is just plain wrong. I don't think
> > I've ever seen a GNU tar where that was true (a SunOS 4.x tar yes, but not
> > a GNU tar). tar --help will tell you the default for your tar (at the
> > end of the paragraph about not doing posix archives, starting "*This*
> > `tar'").
>
> Just to add to this pointless thread... :) If I knew that:
>
> bunzip2 <file> | tar -xv
>
> worked on some boxes while
>
> bunzip2 <file> | tar -xvf -
>
> worked on all (or more) I know which one I'd give out as an answer to
> a query.
>
> Better still, I'd answer 'man tar' and 'man bzip2' or tar --help and
> bzip2 --help and tell them to contact me if they still have a specific
> hassle. Might even provide some additional info which would help
> acquire clue from the helpfiles.
I usually have to use
bunzip2 -c <file> | tar x[v]
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