Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
Dr. David Kirkby <[email protected]> ha escrit:
drkir...@hawk:~$ /usr/local/bin/tar --help
[...]
However, there are no examples of how to use the longer format
options.
For more examples and detailed discussions of them, please read the tar
documentation. The help summary is not intended to replace it.
Thank you Sergey,
I realise the help summary is not the place to learn everything about tar. But
*one* single example showing the use of both the normal short options, plus a
single long option, would take up only a single line of extra output.
Something as simple as:
"tar -cf foo.tar --posix foo (create POSIX format tar file of directory 'foo')"
would have indicated something very useful. I personally would have thought that
a good tradeoff, for the single extra line of output it took up.
I realise my subject title had the world 'couple' in it, but one could replace
that by 'single'!
Currently,
$ tar --help
outputs 278 lines. Personally I would have thought increasing the volume of
output by 0.4% would have been a small price to pay for the potential gain.
Dave
