On 04/10/2020 16:05, Roderick wrote:
We read there:
"""""
-f archive
Filename where the archive is stored. Defaults to /dev/rst0. If set to
hyphen (‘-’) standard output is used. See also the TAPE environment
variable.
""""""
Well, hyphen (‘-’) may also mean stdin as expected, but it seems not
to be mentioned/insinuated on the man page.
Interesting.
Recent versions of tar(1) on {Free,Net}BSD stipulate:
-f file, --file file
Read the archive from or write the archive to the specified file. The
filename can be - for standard input or standard output. The default
varies by system; on FreeBSD, the default is /dev/sa0; on Linux, the
default is /dev/st0.
I assume it's stdin when compressing and stdout when expanding. Or maybe
vice versa?
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