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From: David Kirchner <dpk@notreal.com>
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Subject: tar man page
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>Number:         8679
>Category:       gnu
>Synopsis:       tar man page should be updated
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Nov 13 15:10:00 PST 1998
>Closed-Date:    Thu Jan 11 07:23:22 PST 2001
>Last-Modified:  Thu Jan 11 07:27:31 PST 2001
>Originator:     David Kirchner
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
Notreal Communications
>Environment:

	

>Description:

	

tar's man page could be updated to let people know that a '-'
is *required* if they want to use the GNU-style long options
in a command line.

>How-To-Repeat:

	

tar cvf foo.tar --exclude foo/BigFile foo

will not work, while:

tar -cvf foo.tar --exclude foo/BigFile foo

will properly exclude foo/BigFile from the tar file.

The same goes for the other long options I tried, such as
'--fast-read'.

>Fix:
	
	

The man page should be updated, probably near the FUNCTIONS section, 
with something like:

"A - is required before the bundled-options if you are going to be using
any of the GNU-style long options."

It could probably be worded better of course, but you get the idea.
:-)
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ru 
State-Changed-When: Thu Jan 11 07:23:22 PST 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
This is documented in the EXAMPLES section: 

: Note that you cannot mix bundled flags and --style flags; 
: you can use single-letter flags in the manner above... 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=8679 
>Unformatted:
