7 Apr
2008
7 Apr
'08
11:20 p.m.
Quick, who can recite from memory all of the switches
and their
meanings for GNU tar? I can't.
Neither can I, but then, I don't use GNU tar if I can help it.
Who can understand the tar man pages? Who knows it to
be accurate
for the particular incarnation of tar that they're using?
I do. But then, I wrote both the tar implementation I use and its
manpage, so perhaps that's cheating. :) (Actually, the manpage is
somewhat out of date; I doubt I've updated it since the last round of
changes to the code....)
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