Re: Local copy of ALL man pages

[Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk>]

Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> Chris Davies wrote:
>>      ar -p "$PACKAGE" data.tar.gz | tar xzvCf / - ./usr/share/man

> I'll have to sit down with man pages a figure out why that 
> does what you say.

ar : archiver. It works on the "$PACKAGE" archive. The -p flag writes
the named member(s) of the archive to stdout

tar : "tape" archiver. The various flags take "the next" argument from
the command line as appropriate:
    x : extract file(s) named on the command line after other flags have
	been processed, or extract everything if no files are specified
    z : input is compressed (gzip)
    v : verbose output
    C / : change directory to / before extracting files
    f - : read from stdin ("-" could be a filename, to read from that file)

Chris