On Thursday 14 August 2003 23:00, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > You better stick to that. "tar xvfj" tries to open a file called > "j", which is probably not what you wanted. Surprise, surprise :-) To my surprise tar recently (since when?) seems to be able to understand the "f" option correctly even if it is not last. tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 at least works like that. Cheers, Flo