On Saturday, December 07, 2013 00:27:44 Linda A. Walsh wrote: > I usually look in the manpage. There's not even a link to the > URL, below, that you mention.
GNU tar upstream does not provide manual page. The page you see is probably distro-specific. E.g. in Fedora we have (mostly) generated manual page from 'tar --help' output. It is pity upstream tar does not provide manual page but this topic was here many times. > So how would people know to look there, though I think the manpage is a > better place for information like that. Thank you for the link -- I'd > never seen that feature or switch before. The link Paul posted points the official tar documentation which is usually packaged also as info documentation. E.g. in Fedora, `man tar` says that for full documentation you should look into `info tar`. Pavel