Andrew Benton wrote these words on 08/28/05 12:27 CST: > But this would work > > tar xfC somefile.tar.gz /somewhere
Thanks for the lesson Andrew! I have always been under the misguided impression that the argument to the parameter must follow the parameter. Meaning -f required the somefile.tar.gz to follow and -C required /somewhere to follow. I wonder if you could get away with using the -T and -X options likewise? Seems that eventually (given a weird enough extraction need), you would have to use a "-" in the command. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 12:43:00 up 148 days, 12:16, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.17 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
