Paul Johnston wrote:
> Could be considered off topic, if so sorry!
> I thought it would be useful to see what changes between versions, I thought
> this would be very simple, just a shell script to report the output of binary
> and --version, -V or -v whatever floats its boat.
> Generally the GNU versions use --version but not sure about the Sun versions.
> Question how can I find the version of tar in /usr/bin as the man page
> doesn't seem to tell me.
Commands like tar generally haven't had separate version numbers like that,
they're just the version of tar provided with that version/build of Solaris,
since they're not individually released and not installable on other releases,
unlike the GNU utilities.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
