Re: [Bug-tar] Explanation option -C from Help and Man for tar

[Dmitry V. Levin]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 08:53:29PM +0300, stranger573 wrote:
> 
> Help and man for tar contains a obscure explanation of option -C.
> '-C, --directory=DIR        change to directory DIR'
> 
> >From this it is not clear what the directory is change.
> 
> Is it possible to change the text, for example as:
> 'extract to directory=DIR'
> or
> 'change directory=DIR for extract the contents of archive'
> or other, but most clear.

Unfortunately, the wording you propose doesn't make it any clearer.
Compare with the description of -C option in "info tar":

`--directory=DIR'
`-C DIR'
     When this option is specified, `tar' will change its current
     directory to DIR before performing any operations.  When this
     option is used during archive creation, it is order sensitive.


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