Re^2: tar help

[Maarten Litmaath]

jonathan at cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
\...
\> 	$ cat > excluded
\> 	./excluded
\> 	./GUGU.tar
\> 	$ tar cvfX GUGU.tar excluded .
\
\Overkill.
\	$ tar -cvpf /usr/tmp/GUGU.tar .

Of COURSE I knew the `X' option was overkill for THIS particular problem.
However, I wanted to demonstrate how to use it, because:

	1) The original poster had been unable to extract the exact
	   command sequence from the man pages. You know what I did?
	   - I just went through the source.
	   Which smiley is appropriate here? :-) or :-(

	2) The `X' option can do far more than your solution.
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