08.10.2015 00:32, Dmitry V. Levin пишет: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 08:53:29PM +0300, stranger573 wrote: >> Help and man for tar contains a obscure explanation of option -C. >> '-C, --directory=DIR change to directory DIR' >> >> >From this it is not clear what the directory is change. >> >> Is it possible to change the text, for example as: >> 'extract to directory=DIR' >> or >> 'change directory=DIR for extract the contents of archive' >> or other, but most clear. > Unfortunately, the wording you propose doesn't make it any clearer. > Compare with the description of -C option in "info tar": > > `--directory=DIR' > `-C DIR' > When this option is specified, `tar' will change its current > directory to DIR before performing any operations. When this > option is used during archive creation, it is order sensitive. > > I'm not proposing this as a replacement. I propose add to man description and examples for each work mode. Needed descriptions for this part.
As example: -C, --directory=DIR change to directory DIR For x mode this is extract to directory=DIR <example> For c mode this is source directory=DIR of files <example> <example> For r mode ... <example> Regards, stranger573
