According to Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> on Sun, 11/20/11 at 02:34: > > bsdtar(1) -- accept no substitutes. Well, actually, it's libarchive > which bsdtar is built on top of. It automatically recognizes most > compression formats and most types of data archive -- including a few > that you probably wouldn't have thought of in that context. Try running > it against a .iso CDRom image.
When I ran "man tar" it gave me the bsdtar(1) man page - never much noticed that before... :-) Holy crap! I had no idea: freebsd% tar tvf FreeBSD-9.0-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso | wc -l tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @121dac0 (usr/sbin/chown) 75319296 < 447330304 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @1285180 (usr/share/man/man3/getlogin_r.3.gz) 498898944 < 499906560 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @1270640 (usr/share/man/man3/FD_CLR.3.gz) 499187712 < 499906560 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @1270700 (usr/share/man/man3/FD_ISSET.3.gz) 499187712 < 499906560 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @12707c0 (usr/share/man/man3/FD_SET.3.gz) 499187712 < 499906560 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @1270880 (usr/share/man/man3/FD_ZERO.3.gz) 499187712 < 499906560 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @12449c0 (usr/share/man/man5/malloc.conf.5.gz) 500283392 < 505104384 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @12476c0 (usr/share/man/man8/inetd.8.gz) 505382912 < 506322944 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @1241480 (usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Oslo) 521547776 < 521877504 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @121d880 (usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Istanbul) 521633792 < 521877504 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @12413c0 (usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Nicosia) 521676800 < 521877504 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. 17817 Everything is there and listed. Amazing! You learn something every day. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->| _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"