Florian Ernst wrote: > 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. It is another GNU extension. Traditional 'tar' programs look for the filename after the 'f', but must be seperated by a space. GNU tar looks for a space, skipping past other options if present, and then the filename after that. Which means other options can be between. But other tar programs don't like options between the f and the filename. So it is good practice to keep doing it that way so that usage will be portable to other systems. Bob
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