On Thursday 14 September 2006 08:40, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > On Sep 14, 2006, at 12:29 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > > > In fact, as I discovered a few days ago (after all, how often does > > one read tar(1)'s manpage?), you only need to use -z and -j when > > creating a tar archive. bsdtar(1) recognises bzip2 and gzip > > compression on reading an archive and handles them automatically. > > old habits die hard > > :-0
Exactly. I wondered, when I saw the entry in tar(1)'s manpage, how many other little tricks I don't know because I just do it the old way. If I ever get a supply of tuits (round ones are best, apparently), I might start re-reading the documentation for things I already know how to do, just to find out what I'm missing. Jonathan _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"