On 09-Jul-10 09:42:15, Richard Parsons wrote:
By the way -- why did you put the option "w" into "-xwzf"? Previous suggestions stated "-xvvzf" (though admittedly the repetition in "vv" is redundant: you can just as well use "-xvzf"); maybe you misread "vv" as "w"?
I copied "tar -xvvzf" from the examples on the manual page. Maybe the double v means, "be even more verbose"?
Richard
Hmmm ... I don't have any man page for tar ('man tar') which gives examples of use -- on SuSE, Red Hat, or Debian. Maybe it's an Ubuntu (or other) re-write. In any case, the way command options usually work, a repetition would do nothing extra. Options are read in one by one. When a specific option is encountered, a flag is set in the running code for the command. The first 'v' would set the "verbose" flag. The second 'v' would simply set it again.
I strongly suspect a typo in that version of the man page that you are looking at!
Ted.
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