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From: jba@gorm.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: tar options/function designators
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.174240.8590@gorm.ruc.dk>
Date: 12 Jun 91 17:42:40 GMT
References: <11711@mirsa.inria.fr> <1991Jun12.005655.27185@csc.canberra.edu.au>
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rvp@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Rey Paulo) writes:
>zcat file.tar.Z | tar -xvf -
		       ^
		       |
Maybe a silly question, but what are the net-opinion on using '-' when
specifying tar functions? Personally I don't do it, as the function letters
aren't optional [sic].

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