"Eugene Rosenzweig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looking at tar I noticed a small oddity in its behaviour, as compared to > what I would have thought was 'normal' > When dealing with files, using dash before options, the 'f' option has to be > the last one in the option string, e.g. > > In conclusion, is this a bug or a feature?
A (normal) feature. In GNU world, options starts with one or two dash, and you can write : tar --file=file tar -f file tar -ffile If fact the syntax 'tar zcf file' is an old syntax, only kept for compatibility, it should be read : 'tar -z -c -f file'. -- Julien Gilles -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
