tar -f behaviour

2002-02-26 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Looking at tar I noticed a small oddity in its behaviour, as compared to what I would have thought was 'normal' When dealing with files, using dash before options, the 'f' option has to be the last one in the option string, e.g. tar -tfz tarball.tar.gz works while tar -ftz tarball.tar.gz doesn't

Re: tar -f behaviour

2002-02-26 Thread Hack Kampbjørn
Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: Looking at tar I noticed a small oddity in its behaviour, as compared to what I would have thought was 'normal' When dealing with files, using dash before options, the 'f' option has to be the last one in the option string, e.g. tar -tfz tarball.tar.gz You meant

Re: tar -f behaviour

2002-02-26 Thread Julien Gilles
Eugene Rosenzweig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looking at tar I noticed a small oddity in its behaviour, as compared to what I would have thought was 'normal' When dealing with files, using dash before options, the 'f' option has to be the last one in the option string, e.g. In conclusion, is