Re: the description of -A / --concatenate is inconsistent

2023-05-02 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi Sergey, Op 01-05-2023 om 19:25 schreef Sergey Poznyakoff: As a matter of fact, both are appended. You can easily confirm that if you used the -i option when testing the resulting archive, [...] Ah. Indeed. I didn't read far enough in the man page. :/ But... In the texi document it sa

Re: the description of -A / --concatenate is inconsistent

2023-05-01 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Hi Benno, > But when I try to do something like: > > tar -A -f 11.tar 22.tar 33.tar > > only 22.tar is appended to 11.tar, and 33.tar is silently ignored. As a matter of fact, both are appended. You can easily confirm that if you used the -i option when testing the resulting archive, lik

the description of -A / --concatenate is inconsistent

2023-05-01 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, The texi manual of tar says: '--concatenate' '-A' Appends other 'tar' archives to the end of the archive. But when I try to do something like: tar -A -f 11.tar 22.tar 33.tar only 22.tar is appended to 11.tar, and 33.tar is silently ignored. The synopsis in the man pag