On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Trenton D. Adams wrote:
> Nobody explained what "tar -xvf" is! The x = extract, v = verbose, f =
> file. So f is last because you must have a filename right after the f.
>
Perhaps you have a different version of tar, but here the -f
argument works just fine regardless of position in the argument
string.
[dgris@rand /tmp]$ ls -l perl*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dgris dgris 2875768 Apr 26 22:05 perl5.004_64.tar.gz
[dgris@rand /tmp]$ tar xfvz perl5.004_64.tar.gz
perl5.004_64/
perl5.004_64/Artistic
perl5.004_64/Changes
perl5.004_64/Changes5.000
<snip>
perl5.004_64/djgpp/djgppsed.sh
perl5.004_64/djgpp/fixpmain
perl5.004_64/atomic.h
Daniel
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