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Article #801tar 1.11 -O
From: Norbert Kiesel
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:56
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:56
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Hello, I would like tar *not* to create directories if called with the -O option (i.e. output to stdout). This would allow previewing an tar-file even with PWD on read-only file-systems (and one doesn't need a 'rm -rf' afterwards). so long Norbert ******************************************************************************* * Norbert Kiesel Institut f. Informatik III NN NN KK KK * * RWTH Aachen Ahornstr. 55 NNN NN KK KK * * West Germany D-5100 Aachen NN N NN KK KK * * +49 241 80-7266 NN N NN KKKK * * NN N NN KKKK * * EUNET: norbert@rwthi3.uucp NN N NN KK KK * * USENET: ...!mcvax!unido!rwthi3!norbert NN N NN KK KK * * INTERNET: norbert@rwthi3.informatik.rwth-aachen.de NN NNN KK KK * *******************************************************************************
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Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!mozart.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!norbert From: norbert@mozart.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Norbert Kiesel) Subject: tar 1.11 -O Message-ID: <9209101056.AA10307@rwthi3.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Distribution: gnu Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:56:08 GMT Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu Lines: 24