Andrew Benton wrote: > On 25/01/10 09:18, Johnneylee Rollins wrote: >> I feel silly now. I used this command after looking a bit harder and >> using my google-fu. >> I used this from inside the $LFS directory. >> tar --bzip2 -cvf /home/myusername/LFStools.tar.bz2 tools >> > > It annoys me that tar doesn't have a proper man page. You can find out > how to use it by running > tar --help|less
> Coreutils contails a perl script called help2man that can convert the > output of <command> --help into a useful man page. I install it into bin > install -m755 ~/coreutils-7.6/man/help2man /usr/bin > and then use it to generate a man page for tar > help2man -o /usr/share/man/man1/tar.1 tar I agree that this is a good way to do it. http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/ Another way is to type 'man tar' at the main Google page and click on "I'm Feeling Lucky". -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
