"Scott Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Of course the -I option to tar was completely non-standard. The >changelog explains why it changed, to be consistant with Solaris tar.
I don't see the reasoning in the changelog, but I may just have missed it. >I'd prefer portability and consistancy any day, it shouldn't take that >long to change any custom scripts you have. Why not have portability, consistency, *and* backward compatibility? Make -I an alias for -j, problem solved. Unless Solaris tar has -I as an alias for -T - I suppose it must, as I can't think of any reason for such a blatantly incompatible change. >I always use long options for nonstandard commands when building >scripts anyway :) All the upstream tar people are doing is encouraging people to go back to 'bzip2 -dc foo.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -', I think. And, hell, if you want to be portable across Unixes you have to do that anyway. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
