I usually look in the manpage. There's not even a link to the
URL, below, that you mention. So how would people know to
look there, though I think the manpage is a better place for
information like that. Thank you for the link -- I'd never
seen that feature or switch before.
Instead of going
On Saturday, December 07, 2013 00:27:44 Linda A. Walsh wrote:
I usually look in the manpage. There's not even a link to the
URL, below, that you mention.
GNU tar upstream does not provide manual page. The page you see is
probably distro-specific. E.g. in Fedora we have (mostly) generated
Hello guys,
i hope this is the right place to report the bug in GNU tar i found
today. If not, please appologize this spam.
I'm testing incremental backups with tar-1.26-r1 and found that when I
restoring incremental update in conjunction with -C option tar do not
delete files which was
Maros Zubko zub...@gmail.com ha escrit:
i hope this is the right place to report the bug in GNU tar
Yes, it is the right place.
I'm testing incremental backups with tar-1.26-r1 and found that when I
restoring incremental update in conjunction with -C option tar do not
delete files
On 12/7/2013 9:00 AM, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
Perhaps it might, but this would mean inventing a new archive format
or extending one of the supported ones. Both ways would produce
compatibility problems with prior releases of the GNU tar as well
as with other tar implementations. I can't see
* src/common.h (one_top_level_option): New global.
(one_top_level): New global.
* src/extract.c (extr_init): If one_top_level_option is set, determine
the name one_top_level that might have to be prepended.
(extract_archive): If one_top_level_option is set, prepend one_top_level
to all names that
