Today, Gareth Hughes wrote:
>I was just taking a look at this -- can we change
>
> gunzip <package>.tar.gz
> tar -xvof <package>.tar
>
>to
>
> tar -zxvof <package>.tar.gz
>
>in the installation instructions? And why do we need -o anyway?
-o makes GNU tar produce a POSIX compliant tar archive when creating
archives. It does nothing when untarring.
You need to use -o when creating archives if the archive will ever be used
with a non-GNU tar, although it is probably a lot better to use cpio
anyway...
Regards,
Philip Willoughby
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