[Bug-tar] suggestion re: 'MEMBER'

2018-10-08 Thread Dave Lampton
At the top of the man page for 'tar', there are many references to the argument 'MEMBER' but then it's not defined anywhere. It took quite a bit of reading before I was able to deduce that it must simply be some file/directory that's already inside an existing archive. (Which finally explains why

Re: [Bug-tar] suggestion re: 'MEMBER'

2018-10-08 Thread Dave Lampton
FWIW, it was also frustratingly unclear that if I am in directory A and there is an archive in that directory, and I want to extract that archive to directory B which is somewhere else, I cannot run tar from directory A. I was assuming there would be some output option to extract it to wherever I w