On Tuesday 04 June 2002 12:54 pm, you wrote: [snip] > it _sucks royally_ that tar seems to destroy the archive when you delete > an unknown file: > > p@satan% file test.tar > test.tar: GNU tar archive > p@satan% tar f test.tar --delete "test/biteme" > tar: test/biteme: Not found in archive > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > p@satan% file test.tar > test.tar: data
it also deletes the archive if you don't list a file (or files). yes, this is weird and were it not consistent i would call it a bug, but it's probably some kind of "feature." shawn. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
