On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Richard Unitek wrote: > Hi > > Anybody ever heard of a bug in tar program ? > I have two versions of tar. > In this version --exclude-from FILE works perfect. > 150796 Aug 27 2001 /bin/tar [ls -l /bin/tar] > > Where as in this version --exclude-from FILE doesn't work > 138016 Oct 11 1999 /bin/tar [ls -l /bin/tar] > > How can I see which version of tar I am using ?
tar --version The long options are specific to GNU versions of unix utilities, it may be different on you system if it is not a GNU system, why not try man <command> first! -- One Bell System - it sometimes works. -- _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
