[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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