Re: [Bug-tar] What is -ignoreblocks doing?

[Joerg Schilling]

"Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Ken Williams <address@hidden> ha escrit:
>
> > A co-worker sent me the following command as a Neat Trick for extracting
> > files from whichever tarball they happen to be in:
> > 
> >   cat *tar.gz | tar xz -ignoreblocks --files-from f
>
> The option -ignoreblocks is parsed as `-i -g noreblocks',
> i.e. `--ignore-zeros --listed-incremental=noreblocks'. The only

This is something I would call an ugly option parser bug.

Jörg

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