Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (133 mails)

[Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@xxxxxxxxx>]

 --- E Lea <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 

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

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Thomas Adam

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