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Authored by: brownpw on May 17, '02 01:03:50AM

Dud, have you tried to read the man entry for tar? Maybe it's just the ADHD , but I have neither the desire or the time. For *real* world help on any command, you should always start with the -help option, almost every normally used command has one. For this example, you could just use:

% tar -help

which will produce something that you can actually *use*:

[localhost:~] brownpw% tar -help
tar: illegal option -- l
usage: tar -{txru}[cevfbmopswzBHLPXZ014578] [tapefile] [blocksize] [replstr] [-C directory] file1 file2...

Notice that even though the tar command doesn't have the -help option available to the user, it still fails over to give you the info you need. Some would suggest that this is bad form, but my boss would suggest that I get my work done and not waist all day reading overly confusing and exhaustive man pages, like the one that is given for tar.



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