[Techtalk] tar xfvj
Angelina Carlton
brat at magma.ca
Mon Mar 1 23:04:47 EST 2004
on my Debian pc
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
i have used -j for bz2 files
if I use: tar cfvj jpg.bz2 *.jpg
tar: jpg.bz2: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
but tar cjvf jpg.bz2 *.jpg works, so I can assume the f needs to be
last?
however, when extracting, tar xfvj jpg.bz2 it works fine even though the
f isnt last.
this isnt much help ;-)
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 21:45, Carla Schroder wrote:
> I'm seeing this weirdo tar invocation in the docs on kernel building:
>
> $ tar xfvj /path/to/linux-2.6.0-test7.tar.bz2
>
> j is not a gnu tar option, and the order looks screwy- shouldn't f come last,
> next to the filename? Where is this stuff coming from?
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