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.
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.
Before GNU
tar
There
are plans to merge the cpio
This is well described in Unix-haters Handbook, by Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise & Steven Strassmann, IDG Books, ISBN 1-56884-203-1.
Well! We should say
the whole truth, here. When --sparse (-S) is selected while creating
an archive, the current tar
Previous versions
of tar
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