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| From: | Antonio Diaz Diaz |
| Subject: | Re: Improvement of man pages of TAR |
| Date: | Tue, 15 Feb 2022 19:07:46 +0100 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 |
Paul Eggert wrote:
Perhaps a rewrite of the diagnostic instead? Something like this? $ tar -cf foo.tar a b c foo.tar d e f g tar: foo.tar: archive cannot contain itself; not dumped
Excellent idea! This makes explicit the cause of the problem.
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