Re: [cobalt-users] tar

[jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jens Kristian Søgaard)]

Jeff Lovell <jlovell@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > tar cvfpz web/* web.tar
> tar -zcvpf web.tar web/*

> you must specify your tar file after -f

Actually Jeff, there is a subtlety here.

When using this argument as originally posted, it is not necessary to
have f as the last option specifier:

        tar cvfpz myfile.tar.gz somefiles

But your method _requires_ the f to be the last option specifier:

        tar -cvpzf myfile.tar.gz somefiles

The use of the "-" makes the difference.



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