Chung Hang Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > gtar xvfz filename.tar.bz2
>
> gtar jxfz ;)
A really bad idea. Use star:
star xf
> > And that was just a *trivial* example.
>
> I love it when Linux users bash Solaris about having
> to pipe and Solaris users bash gtar as non-portable.
There is no bashing, GNU tar is non-portable and still is full
of bugs. GNU tar is based on a program called "SUG-tar or PD-tar"
(Sun user group tar or Public domain tar) from John Gilmore
>From star.h:
/*
* This is the GNUtar header defined in 1989.
*
* The nonstandard stuff could not be found in in the first pubslished versions
* of the program. The first version I am aware of, is a program called SUGtar
* published at the Sun User Group meeting in december 1987, a different
* publishing of the same program which has been originally written by
* John Gilmore was called PDtar. In 1987 PDtar/SUGtar was implementing a true
* subset of the 1987 POSIX-1003 draft (missing only the long name splitting).
*
* FSF people then later added t_atime... making GNU tar non POSIX compliant.
* When FSF added the sparse file handling stuff, this was done in a way that
* even violates any tar document available since the late 1970's.
*
* GNU tar is not tar...
*/
Jörg
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