Re: about tar works O.T.

[Shawn Lamson <slnj@optonline.net>]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:46:36 -0600
David Berg <drberg1000@gmail.com> wrote:

> This might not be related to your problem but I don't see any mention
> of using -v twice in the man page. 

look in the examples section right at the top :)  it increases verbosity.

slamson@mishmar:/tmp$ tar cvvf archive1.tar file*
-rwxr-xr-x slamson/slamson 44220 2006-02-14 09:28:43 file1
-rw-r--r-- slamson/slamson  2247 2006-02-14 09:28:46 file2
slamson@mishmar:/tmp$ tar cvf archive2.tar file*
file1
file2
slamson@mishmar:/tmp$ l archive*
-rw-r--r-- 1 slamson slamson 51200 2006-02-14 09:29 archive1.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 slamson slamson 51200 2006-02-14 09:29 archive2.tar

i'm sure it isn't related to his problem... 

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Shawn Lamson
slnj@optonline.net