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[Bug-tar] What is -ignoreblocks doing?
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Ken Williams |
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[Bug-tar] What is -ignoreblocks doing? |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:58:09 -0600 |
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Microsoft-Entourage/11.3.3.061214 |
A co-worker sent me the following command as a Neat Trick for extracting
files from whichever tarball they happen to be in:
cat *tar.gz | tar xz -ignoreblocks --files-from f
However, our man page says nothing of "-ignoreblocks". We're guessing it's
equivalent to --ignore-zeros, because it seems to behave similarly.
How's this argument getting parsed?
--
Ken Williams
Research Scientist
The Thomson Corporation
Eagan, MN
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