> On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 19:36:22 -0800, Paul Eggert said:
>
> On 2/13/22 08:11, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> > Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> >> Man page: tar.1
> >> Issue: archive --> archive itself
> >>
> >> "%s: file is the archive; not dumped"
> >
> > FWIW, as a non-native English reader but so
Paul Eggert wrote:
Perhaps a rewrite of the diagnostic instead? Something like this?
$ tar -cf foo.tar a b c foo.tar d e f g
tar: foo.tar: archive cannot contain itself; not dumped
Excellent idea! This makes explicit the cause of the problem.
On 2/15/22 10:07, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
Excellent idea! This makes explicit the cause of the problem.
OK, I installed the attached. I didn't follow Martin's suggestion
because there is a bit of a "; not dumped" pattern elsewhere.From 229fc1e6ef7a709bdb11fe51b5bc4dac7d4a691a Mon Sep 17 00:00
