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regarding tar: manual - Missing information for multiple --verbose option use
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Package: tar
Version: 1.23-3
Severity: minor
Manual page of tar (1) reads:
NAME
tar - The GNU version of the tar archiving utility
OTHER OPTIONS
Operation modifiers:
[...]
-v, --verbose
verbosely list files processed
At command line:
$ touch 1 2 3
$ tar -cvf test.tar 1 2 3
1
2
3
$ tar -cvvf test.tar 1 2 3
-rw-r--r-- foo/foo 80785 2010-11-09 10:36 1
-rw-r--r-- foo/foo 0 2010-11-09 10:36 2
-rw-r--r-- foo/foo 0 2010-11-09 10:36 3
SUGGESTION
Please improve --verbose option's documentation in manual page and
mention that multiple -v options increase the verbosity. Also mention
what is the maximum verbosity (option count).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages tar depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
tar recommends no packages.
Versions of packages tar suggests:
ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
pn ncompress <none> (no description available)
ii xz-utils 4.999.9beta+20100810-1 XZ-format compression utilities
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
This was fixed upstream and is already in Debian :-)
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LÉNÁRT, János
<[email protected]>
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