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From: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: tar cvf question
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.190859.8277@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US>
Date: 24 Mar 91 19:08:59 GMT
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tomb@marque.mu.edu (Tom Baas) wrote:
>If one were to issue the command: tar cvf *   Where does the data go?
>I did this on my machine knowing that I could very quickly fill up my
>disk and possibly crash the system.  I found that the first ascii file
>in the dirctory ended up being screwed up with what I assumed to be
>all the data of all the rest of the files in that directory.

All but the first file that * matches were tarred to the first file that
* matches. The f flag expects an argument that is the name of the tar
file.
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Rob Bernardo					Mt. Diablo Software Solutions
email: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US		phone: (415) 827-4301