"Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This old way of writing `tar' options can surprise even experienced
> users. For example, the two commands:
>
> tar cfz archive.tar.gz file
> tar -cfz archive.tar.gz file
>
> are quite different.
>
>
> So I use either tar --lzma -xv -f compressedarchive.tar.lzma or, when
> using an old tar,
> lzma -dc compressedarchive.tar.lzma | tar -xv -f -
The "correct" official tar syntax does not use '-'. If you like to be 100%
that a tar command should work, ddon't use '-' in front of options.
BTW: "star" autodetects 7z compression and calls the program "p7zip" to unpack
the archive transparently.
Jörg
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