Re: tar: "./<file>" or "<file>"

[<charlieb@budge.apana.org.au>]

On Wed, 6 Apr 1994, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> 
> Background: Debian 0.93 may move back to the tar format.
> 
> Why?
> 
> 1. tar files are smaller
..
> Now, Is there any reason to use one command line over the other?
> 
> $ tar cvf file.tar ./usr
> 
> or
> 
> $  tar cvf file.tar usr
Well the first has at least 2 x number of files more bytes!?:-)

I know when extracting a single file I am more likely to type:
 tar xf file.tar path/path/file
and 
 ls path/path/file
than the ./path/path/file version.

I think that the move back to tar will make Debian less alien to the 
existing Linux community.

Charlie Brady * (W) charlieb@tplrd.tpl.oz.au * (H) charlieb@budge.apana.org.au
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