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"Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <please.no.spam.here@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> This old way of writing `tar' options can surprise even experienced |
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> users. For example, the two commands: |
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> tar cfz archive.tar.gz file |
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> tar -cfz archive.tar.gz file |
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> are quite different. |
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> So I use either tar --lzma -xv -f compressedarchive.tar.lzma or, when |
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> using an old tar, |
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> lzma -dc compressedarchive.tar.lzma | tar -xv -f - |
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The "correct" official tar syntax does not use '-'. If you like to be 100% |
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that a tar command should work, ddon't use '-' in front of options. |
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BTW: "star" autodetects 7z compression and calls the program "p7zip" to unpack |
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the archive transparently. |
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Jörg |
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EMail:joerg@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin |
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schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ |
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