24 Jun
2003
24 Jun
'03
15:37
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