* Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-04 10:56]: > The POSIX guidelines say that options like -b and -f that take > arguments can be spelled either like this, with a space before > the option-arguments: > tar -cvb 20 -f x.tar file1 file2 > > or like this, without a space: > tar -tvb20 -fx.tar file1 file2
> Also, POSIX says the operand to an option can begin with "-". For > example, > > I hope this helps to explain the behavior you observed. Thanks a lot for this explanation. I understand the behaviour of tar now. I also agree it makes sense to follow POSIX, even though I personally think it's weird that POSIX would allow for something like "-tvb20". -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
