tar --delete

2005-05-13 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Hi there, can anyone explain why in the FreeBSD version of tar there isn't any --delete option? in the GNU versione of the tar archiving utility we have: --delete delete from the archive (not for use on mag tapes!) (http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?tar) in the FreeBSD version

Re: tar --delete

2005-05-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 13 May 2005 13:26:09 +0200 Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can anyone explain why in the FreeBSD version of tar there isn't any --delete option? no idea Is there a workaround to make tar deleting a file in the archive (without extracting, deleting, re-tarring) ? gnu tar