On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 19:06 -0600, Paul Novak wrote:
> Perhaps "--delete" is not intended to work with compressed tar files.
> If that's true, I would suggest that that "--info" information be
> expanded because I couldn't find anywhere where it says that.
Buried in the info documentation in node 8.2.1 it does say:
Notice also, that there are several restrictions on operations on
compressed archives. First of all, compressed archives cannot be
modified, i.e. you cannot update (`--update' (`-u')) them or delete
(`--delete') members from them. Likewise, you cannot append another
`tar' archive to a compressed archive using `--append' (`-r')).
Secondly, multi-volume archives cannot be compressed.
But most tar users will never read that. Since the man page does
mention that --delete is "not for use on mag tapes", shouldn't it also
mention that --delete cannot be used on compressed archives?
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