On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 08:29:31AM +0200, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 07:23:45AM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 05:52:02PM -0400, aisha wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Someone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ5uD5x8vzg - mentioned that > > > our man page for tar(1) doesn't have an extract example, so I thought it > > > would be good to add a simple one which highlights a common use case. > > > > > > OK? > > > > > > > hi. > > > > the examples section is small enough that i suppose it wouldn;t be a > > problem to add another one. > > > > it does add another example with a similar set of options though, all in > > a different order. i wonder whether we should try and push the action as > > the first option, so people can see what we're doing. so "cXXX" when the > > example is to create, "tXXX" when listing? then keep the "vzf" options > > that are so common in the same order? > > I wouldn't restore a .tgz without the -p flag. Particularily on backups. > Perhaps the OP forgot to add it. > > Best Regards, > -peter
Someone privately strongly disagreed on this. So I retract this. Best, -peter
