On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:11:44 -0500 Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matthias B. wrote these words on 07/17/06 13:51 CST: > > I thought you might be interested in one of my "Can't live without > > this anymore" patches. Enjoy. > > > > Description: > > tar xzf foo.tar.bz2 - if you don't see what's wrong with this, you > > need this patch. It makes the "z" option behave like "j" if the > > archive name given ends in ".bz2". IOW, forget "j", always use "z". > > Or, don't use either j or z and simply use xf from now on and don't > worry about it. TAR doesn't need z or j any more, it figures it out > on its own (at least versions of TAR in the last year or so, anyway). > > :-) Nice. But 1. that doesn't work for archive creation. 2. that doesn't get rid of my habit of including "z". Old dogs and new tricks, you know :-) So I still can't live without my patch. MSB -- You cannot teach the colour-blind to love colours. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/patches FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
