GNU tar: an archiver tool

FTP release, version 1.13.17, 12 December 1999

Melissa Weisshaus, Jay Fenlason,
Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG, Amy Gorin


(1)

Clustering many options, the last of which has an argument, is a rather opaque way to write options. Some wonder if GNU getopt should not even be made helpful enough for considering such usages as invalid.

(2)

Beware that if you precede options with a dash, you are announcing the short option style instead of the old option style; short options are decoded differently.

(3)

Before GNU tar

(4)

There are plans to merge the cpio

(5)

This is well described in Unix-haters Handbook, by Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise & Steven Strassmann, IDG Books, ISBN 1-56884-203-1.

(6)

Well! We should say the whole truth, here. When --sparse (-S) is selected while creating an archive, the current tar

(7)

Previous versions of tar


This document was generated on 25 May 2000 using the texi2html translator version 1.51a.