RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] archiving directories
substituting the values as you need them. Different versions of tar are not to blame. Whoever it was that suggested using redirected output "> filename.tar" in the last thread is severly mistaken about how tar works.....
You can't just make a sweeping statement like that. By default GNU tar writes to stdout. Redirecting the output to a file works. I'm not sure what you're getting at
--- E Lea
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not to blame. Whoever it was that suggested using redirected output "> filename.tar" in the last thread is severly mistaken about how tar works.....
You can't just make a sweeping statement like that. By default GNU tar writes to stdout. Redirecting the output to a file works. I'm not sure what you're getting at
Sorry -- I didnt realise just how harshly I had put that :( I didnt mean for it to sound so rude. I know tar writes to stdout, it is just unusuall for you to use it in that manner, when using the syntax I have already suggested is better. -- Thomas Adam ===== Thomas Adam "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- www.linuxgazette.com ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/
E Lea
not to blame. Whoever it was that suggested using redirected output "> filename.tar" in the last thread is severly mistaken about how tar works..... You can't just make a sweeping statement like that. By default GNU tar writes to stdout. Redirecting the output to a file works. I'm not sure what you're getting at
I think what Thomas meant was that if you give the f option, GNU tar does not write to stdout, but to the named file parameter. HTH. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ jabber://slef@jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Thought: "Changeset algebra is really difficult."
--- MJ Ray
not to blame. Whoever it was that suggested using redirected output "> filename.tar" in the last thread is severly mistaken about how tar works..... You can't just make a sweeping statement like that. By default GNU tar writes to stdout. Redirecting the output to a file works. I'm not sure what you're getting at
I think what Thomas meant was that if you give the f option, GNU tar does not write to stdout, but to the named file parameter. HTH.
Yup -- that is what I meant :) -- TA
-- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ jabber://slef@jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Thought: "Changeset algebra is really difficult."
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