Hi On site http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html I can read: <quote> ‘--verbose’ (‘-v’) shows details about the results of running tar. </quote> and for creating archive or adding files to archive it works, but for deleteing files doesn't.
I tried used verbose mode like on examples: tar --delete --file=lxterminal-0.1.6.tar lxterminal-0.1.6/README --verbose returns nothing on standard output (file has been deleted) tar -vf lxterminal-0.1.6.tar --delete lxterminal-0.1.6/INSTALL returns nothing on standard output (file has been deleted) Why it doesn't work? It is bug or intended working? -- regards piomiq at jabber.org