On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > There are a couple of pages in the BLFS book that have tar xf. I will post the pages on the BLFS list.
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