Re: blow me read the quoted man pages I cited!!!

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Post #141,299 by deSitter 2/11/04 10:32:08 PM Reply	Re: blow me read the quoted man pages I cited!!! You misinterpreted the syntax of the page... You'll notice that it starts tar [-]{cvf...} This means, optional dash, then come any number of options. The tar options MUST come first, and they can be preceded by a dash or not. tar is one of the oldest things in UNIX. I'm almost certain that the funny option behavior is a consequence of the context you would find tar operating in - dumping and restoring files from tapes - and the dash was needed to allow tar to understand what kind of tape drive it was dealing with. A tar command from that day probably bore little resemblance to a standard UNIX command of today, and looked more like a TSO tape operation with explicit blocking and record layouts. -drl
Post #141,301 by boxley 2/11/04 10:38:08 PM Reply	also notice the description of the flags One of the following flags must be present: -c Create new archive, or overwrite an existing archive, adding the specified files to it. if it must be present what part of optional are you seeing? berkely needs - unix does not, back in the day. thanx, bill and everywhere the great Curse of the New World, the American Child, in all its raucous, spoiled, undiciplined, selfish ghastliness, the female specimens keeping up an incessant high-pitched whine and the male infants racketing like cowpokes on payday. There's nothing wrong with grown Americans, by and large you wont find heartier men or bonnier women anywhere, but the only remedy I can see for the children is to run Herod for President. Sir Harold Flashman esquire VC OBE questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #141,306 by deSitter 2/11/04 11:38:03 PM Reply	Re: also notice the description of the flags Just the dash is optional. Apparently original tar only had the non-dashed ganged options. The dashes were added for people aready afflicted with automatic switch prefix disease. See docs for gnu tar "Styles". -drl
Post #141,308 by boxley 2/11/04 11:43:13 PM Reply	/me/bangs head on floor bsd man page indicated by example dash required, 1979 unix hard copy shows no such animal. In Xenix dash required, forpro another unix/bsd mix dash required prime MIPS unix dash required unix no dash needed linux eithr or sys5 either or. Evolution at work. thanx, bill and everywhere the great Curse of the New World, the American Child, in all its raucous, spoiled, undiciplined, selfish ghastliness, the female specimens keeping up an incessant high-pitched whine and the male infants racketing like cowpokes on payday. There's nothing wrong with grown Americans, by and large you wont find heartier men or bonnier women anywhere, but the only remedy I can see for the children is to run Herod for President. Sir Harold Flashman esquire VC OBE questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #141,310 by deSitter 2/11/04 11:57:06 PM Reply	s'one send email to ESR or Moen -drl

Question for heads - (deSitter) - (23) - Feb. 11, 2004, 07:23:31 PM EST

Probably because the dash IS an option on its own, to tar? -NT - (CRConrad) - (16) - Feb. 11, 2004, 07:32:41 PM EST

Nice try, but - (deSitter) - (15) - Feb. 11, 2004, 07:45:55 PM EST

No, for many (most?) old commands, that's DOUBLE dash. (*) - (CRConrad) - (14) - Feb. 11, 2004, 07:57:44 PM EST

Re: No, for many (most?) old commands, that's DOUBLE dash. ( - (deSitter) - (13) - Feb. 11, 2004, 08:04:28 PM EST

WTF is "bash"?!? - (CRConrad) - (12) - Feb. 11, 2004, 08:37:13 PM EST

Bzzt, wrong. - (ben_tilly) - (2) - Feb. 11, 2004, 08:49:13 PM EST

Go buy a sense of humour, nitwit. - (CRConrad) - (1) - Feb. 12, 2004, 02:43:29 AM EST

I recognize *funny* jokes perfectly well - (ben_tilly) - Feb. 12, 2004, 01:27:00 PM EST

Re: WTF is "bash"?!? - (deSitter) - (8) - Feb. 11, 2004, 08:53:19 PM EST

blow me read the quoted man pages I cited!!! - (boxley) - (5) - Feb. 11, 2004, 10:13:04 PM EST

Re: blow me read the quoted man pages I cited!!! - (deSitter) - (4) - Feb. 11, 2004, 10:32:08 PM EST

also notice the description of the flags - (boxley) - (3) - Feb. 11, 2004, 10:38:08 PM EST

Re: also notice the description of the flags - (deSitter) - (2) - Feb. 11, 2004, 11:38:03 PM EST

/me/bangs head on floor - (boxley) - (1) - Feb. 11, 2004, 11:43:13 PM EST

s'one send email to ESR or Moen -NT - (deSitter) - Feb. 11, 2004, 11:57:06 PM EST

Then shut the f...heck up and listen, f...numbskull! - (CRConrad) - (1) - Feb. 12, 2004, 03:07:08 AM EST

jEEEz -NT - (deSitter) - Feb. 12, 2004, 03:26:27 AM EST

Unix Programmers Manual Volume 1 Bell Labs - (boxley) - (5) - Feb. 11, 2004, 07:55:42 PM EST

Re: Unix Programmers Manual Volume 1 Bell Labs - (a6l6e6x) - (4) - Feb. 11, 2004, 08:27:20 PM EST

My edition is 1979 and doesnt state that? what edition are - (boxley) - Feb. 11, 2004, 10:10:26 PM EST

Re: Unix Programmers Manual Volume 1 Bell Labs - (deSitter) - (2) - Feb. 11, 2004, 10:35:17 PM EST

No it doesn't. - (pwhysall) - Feb. 12, 2004, 03:13:29 AM EST

Dash by itself is meaningless in tar - (Arkadiy) - Feb. 12, 2004, 01:18:59 PM EST

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