Andres P wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Mikie <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What am I doing wrong?
>
> You are probably using GNU tar, so tar xvf works for all tarballs. And
> you also don't need to do such a long script:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> for file in /mnt/lfs/sources/*.tar*; do
> tar xvf $file
> done
There are three types of options, bsd, short, and long. The bsd options
are those without the hyphen to start an are deprecated, although they
still work.
bsd style options are position dependent and less flexible.
Try:
tar -f subversion-1.6.4.tar.bz2 -xv
you can't do that with bsd options.
-- Bruce
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