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Re: [Bug-tar] tar doc question: what is "hard-dereference"; how is it do


From: Pavel Raiskup
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] tar doc question: what is "hard-dereference"; how is it done?
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2013 09:54:20 +0100
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On Saturday, December 07, 2013 00:27:44 Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> I usually look in the manpage.  There's not even a link to the
> URL, below, that you mention.

GNU tar upstream does not provide manual page.  The page you see is
probably distro-specific.  E.g. in Fedora we have (mostly) generated
manual page from 'tar --help' output.  It is pity upstream tar does not
provide manual page but this topic was here many times.

> So how would people know to look there, though I think the manpage is a
> better place for information like that.  Thank you for the link -- I'd
> never seen that feature or switch before.

The link Paul posted points the official tar documentation which is
usually packaged also as info documentation.  E.g. in Fedora, `man tar`
says that for full documentation you should look into `info tar`.

Pavel




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