On Tuesday 08 of December 2015 14:34:30 derek terveer wrote:
> When viewing this page,
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Incremental-Dumps.html
>
> There is an example,
>
> ======================================================================
> To list the contents of an incremental archive, use `--list' (see section How
> to List Archives), as usual. To obtain more information about the archive,
> use `--listed-incremental' or `--incremental' combined with two `--verbose'
> options(12):
>
> tar --list --incremental --verbose --verbose archive.tar
> ======================================================================
>
> I believe that there is a '--files=' missing after the second --verbose.
Thanks for the report. There is missing '--file' option, yes:
@smallexample
-@kbd{tar --list --incremental --verbose --verbose archive.tar}
+@kbd{tar --list --incremental --verbose --verbose --file archive.tar}
@end smallexample
Pavel
>From f1adf641466531f12f4c84208937f48a037112c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pavel Raiskup <prais...@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 13:27:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: fix a typo
* doc/tar.texi (Incremental Dumps): Add missing --file to the
'--list' example.
---
THANKS | 1 +
doc/tar.texi | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index b4c5427..b9c3c75 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ Demizu Noritoshi nor...@is.aist-nara.ac.jp
Denis Excoffier denis.excoff...@free.fr
Denis Fortin for...@acm.org
Dennis Pixton den...@math.binghamton.edu
+Derek Terveer d...@hawkmoon.mn.org
Dick Streefland di...@tasking.nl
Dietmar Braun diet...@highway.bertelsmann.de
Dimitri Bougoulias o...@hol.gr
diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi
index e3bfd66..e2f6c7d 100644
--- a/doc/tar.texi
+++ b/doc/tar.texi
@@ -6519,7 +6519,7 @@ especially, the binary output it produced were considered inconvenient
and were changed in version 1.16.}:
@smallexample
-@kbd{tar --list --incremental --verbose --verbose archive.tar}
+@kbd{tar --list --incremental --verbose --verbose --file archive.tar}
@end smallexample
This command will print, for each directory in the archive, the list
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2.5.0
