Colin Percival <cperc...@tarsnap.com> wrote: > Whoops, I replied to Tim directly a few days ago because I didn't realize > that his question had gone out to the mailing list...
Ah! I thought the lack of responses unusual! > For the record, this is almost exactly the answer I gave. :-) > > The one thing I'd add is that the -q option will exit as soon as *at least > one* archive entry has been extracted matching each pattern listed on the > command line, so it's almost certainly not what you want if you're using > wildcards. :-) Funnily / weirdly enough, I just logged in to add something similar.. "Eating my own dogfood" (more or less) I just determined that just specifying a directory doesn't restore files within that directory - just the empty directory itself. Same principle I suppose as rhis is basically just a wildcard operation with an implied wildcard character! cheers!