On 6/15/15, Ralf <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 23:26:48 +1000 > Zenaan Harkness <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 6/14/15, Ralf <[email protected]> wrote: >> > by chance I noticed a file /usr/bin/tgz . >> > In $HOME I run $ tgz --help and a file was generated named >> > --help.tgz . >> >> $ man tgz >> TGZ(1) Mtools Users Manual >> TGZ(1) >> NAME >> tgz - makes a gzip'd tar archive >> SYNOPSIS >> tgz [ destination [ source ... ] ] >> DESCRIPTION >> Make a gzip'd tar archive with the name of the first parameter >> out of specified >> files or, if no source files are specified, from everything in >> the current >> directory.
The above paragraph is the explanation of why you're seeing what you're seeing. "tgz" command has been written a bit posterior-brained. It does not use normal options. So when you give it "--help" option, "tgz" thinks that is the name of the tar+gzip file you are trying to create. The other things you see also appear to be explained by this man page. > Thank you for the man page. > > I neither had one installed, nor did I found it in the Internet. > > It still doesn't explain the copy directories that were created and that > were no tar.gz files. Are you sure? It looks like you ran the program a few times with different options, thinking it was a normal program. But I might be mistaken - I didn't go back and read the thread again. Regards, Zenaan _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
