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[Bug-tar] Bug report regarding the manual <http://www.gnu.org/software/t
From: |
Helmut Waitzmann |
Subject: |
[Bug-tar] Bug report regarding the manual <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/absolute.html#SEC113> |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:14:35 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello, GNU-tar maintainers,
in the manual
<http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/absolute.html#SEC113>,
the solution to avoid absolute member names,
$ (cd / && tar -c -f archive.tar home)
is buggy: The archive will be written to the directory "/", which is not
necessarily the case with
$ tar -c -f archive.tar /home
.
As the solution
$ tar -c -f archive.tar -C / home
(which is already in the manual) is correct, there is no need to
use the former one.
Could it please be deleted?
Thanks in advance,
Helmut
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- [Bug-tar] Bug report regarding the manual <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/absolute.html#SEC113>,
Helmut Waitzmann <=