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[Bug-tar] [PATCH] Fix man-page description of `--to-command`


From: Aaron Schrab
Subject: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Fix man-page description of `--to-command`
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 21:20:20 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.9.3+115 (d0f70bed5) (2018-02-22)

Command specified by `--to-command` will receive content on its stdin,
not stdout. The texinfo docs already have this correct.
---
doc/tar.1 | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/tar.1 b/doc/tar.1
index ddf4fdc..d5dec74 100644
--- a/doc/tar.1
+++ b/doc/tar.1
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ Extract files to standard output.
Pipe extracted files to \fICOMMAND\fR.  The argument is the pathname
of an external program, optionally with command line arguments.  The
program will be invoked and the contents of the file being extracted
-supplied to it on its standard output.  Additional data will be
+supplied to it on its standard input.  Additional data will be
supplied via the following environment variables:
.RS
.TP
--
2.16.1.101.gde0f0111ea




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