Steve Youngs wrote:
>
<snip>
> MM> > tar cvyf filename.tar.bz2 /stuff_you_want_to_archive
<snip>
> See, just goes to show that you can learn something new each and every day
Yes, but unfortunately this switch is not recogonized by my version of
tar (GNU tar 1.12) and '/bzip' yields nothing in the man page :-(
"What kinda tar is that?"
> MM> PS: time to read the bash man page for the third time ;-)
>
> You really like reading huh? That's got to be one of the longest man
> pages there is. :-)
>
I did
man -t bash | lpr
and now the (paper) man page lies next to my computer. I think knowing
your bash is not essetial but it saves you _some_ time when doing
certain things (e.g. with for-loops).
Marc
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