Pass params w/tar czvf? (Re: [PLUG] Tarball installation)
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at attbi.com
Thu Jul 18 21:50:40 UTC 2002
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> Second minor correction, the f option requires a parameter that is
> the archive file name. So this would read:
>
> tar cvzf xxx.tar.gz xxx
Addendum to the correction :-)
The verification switch (-W, --verify) cannot be used with either a
compression switch (-j, -z, or -Z) or when piping tar's output to
stdout. You have to do two atomic operations, e.g.,
tar cWvf xxx.tar xxx && gzip -9v xxx.tar
--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>
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