Bug#152160: [Bug-tar] Re: tar has strange command line argument parsing

Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-04 10:56]: > > The POSIX guidelines say that options like -b and -f that take > > arguments can be spelled either like this, with a space before > > the option-arguments: > >tar -cvb 20 -f x.tar file1 file

Bug#152160: [Bug-tar] Re: tar has strange command line argument parsing

* Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-04 10:56]: > The POSIX guidelines say that options like -b and -f that take > arguments can be spelled either like this, with a space before > the option-arguments: >tar -cvb 20 -f x.tar file1 file2 > > or like this, without a space: >tar -tvb20 -