On 12/6/2013 4:44 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
Linda A. Walsh wrote:
What is this switch suppose to do?
This switch causes the complete file to be duplicated in the
tar archive for every name it has in the filesystem.. Otherwise,
the tar archive stores the file just once; other names
are stored
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
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
Linda A. Walsh wrote:
What is this switch suppose to do?
To answer questions like these, I suggest looking
at the tar documentation. Here's a URL:
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/hard-links.html
