Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Sun, 30 May 2004 14:14, steve wrote:OK, it's not so in HP-UX up to 10.0, a few of the Data General versions, and DEC Ultrix tar; and Solaris tar is so non-standard the best bet is to delete it, but this is the Canterbury *Linux* User Group list (:
One quick correction...
'f' doesn't have to come last. ( c = create, x = extract, t = tabulate
for other options. v for verbose is quite useful, but can slow down
creation/extraction of an archive).
While that is the case when running the current GNU tar, that has not always been the case. On older Unix releases, such as SVSV, you most definitely have to put the file's name immediately after the 'f' flag.
Just mentioning a trap for younger players.
Steve
