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Joerg Schilling wrote: |
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> Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>> 1) Better use -cjvpf ("f") takes an argument (the filename of that tar |
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>>> to be crated) so it must be at the end. |
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>> That's why I usually use "tar -cjvp -f blabla.tar.bz2". I always |
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>> seperate options that take an argument from the rest. But -cjvpf works |
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>> too as long as "f" is at the end. This means that if you combine many |
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>> options after a single "-", only one one of them is allowed to take an |
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>> argument; the last one. |
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> You are describing the oddities of the bugs in the command line parser from |
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> gnu tar. Some of the problems are bugs built into the GNU getopt() function, |
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> others are a result from the preprocessing in gnutar. |
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> tar, ar and ps are the UNIX commands that do not follow the CLI guidelines from |
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> the late 1970s, see: |
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> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/tar.html |
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> and do not use options that are prepended by '-'. |
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> The origunal UNIX tar just ignores the '-' and parses the options as defined in |
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> 1978. |
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> Star internally correctly converts the first parameter from the historic style |
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> to something that can be parsed by a modern command line parser such as |
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> getargs(). GNU tar does not correctly convert the parameters... |
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> Jörg |
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But as was pointed out a while back, star is not on the Gentoo CD. If I |
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had to use that stage4 tarball, it would be while booted from the CD. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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