george doumas wrote: > DESCRIPTION Option styles > The following command, written in the traditional style, instructs tar to > store all files from the directory /etc into the archivefile etc.tar > verbosely listing the files being archived: > > tar cfv a.tar /etc > > The above command has a mistake. Instead you should say : > The following command, written in the traditional style, instructs tar to > store all files from the directory /etc into the archive file etc.tar > verbosely listing the files being archived: > > tar cfv etc.tar /etc
Thank you for your bug report! You are correct. That is a typo in the man page in versions up through 1.31. This has fixed by the following commit. When you upgrade to the next version you should see the fix. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/doc/tar.1?id=b0930da045d4dc9750097876f0a3f672dc99ad11 Thank you for your report! Many eyes finds all bugs. :-) Bob commit b0930da045d4dc9750097876f0a3f672dc99ad11 Author: Sergey Poznyakoff <g...@gnu.org> Date: Mon Jan 14 12:48:16 2019 +0200 Fix typo in manpage. diff --git a/doc/tar.1 b/doc/tar.1 index 6602334..0ff1d53 100644 --- a/doc/tar.1 +++ b/doc/tar.1 @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. -.TH TAR 1 "May 16, 2018" "TAR" "GNU TAR Manual" +.TH TAR 1 "January 14, 2019" "TAR" "GNU TAR Manual" .SH NAME tar \- an archiving utility .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ into the archive file verbosely listing the files being archived: .PP .EX -.B tar cfv a.tar /etc +.B tar cfv etc.tar /etc .EE .PP In @@ -133,9 +133,9 @@ The example command above written in the could look like: .PP .EX -.B tar -cvf a.tar /etc +.B tar -cvf etc.tar /etc or -.B tar -c -v -f a.tar /etc +.B tar -c -v -f etc.tar /etc .EE .PP In @@ -152,11 +152,11 @@ method. Here are several ways of writing the example command in this style: .PP .EX -.B tar --create --file a.tar --verbose /etc +.B tar --create --file etc.tar --verbose /etc .EE or (abbreviating some options): .EX -.B tar --cre --file=a.tar --verb /etc +.B tar --cre --file=etc.tar --verb /etc .EE .PP The options in all three styles can be intermixed, although doing so