Re: [Bug-tar] Fwd: [regression] tar mess up \ and \\ files

[Nathan Stratton Treadway]

On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 20:19:36 +0100, Markus Steinborn wrote:
> Nowhere it mentions that unquoting is restricted to filenames read
> with -T. From the documentation I'd guess that unquoting applies to
> filenames from the command line, too.
> 
> 
> With tar 1.27.1 it in fact applies to command line filenames, too -
> in conformance with the texinfo doc, but in conflict with "tar
> --help".

Here's quick patch to remove the mention of "-T" from the
--unquote/-no-unquote entries in "tar --help" and tar.1.

                                                        Nathan


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