Re: [Bug-tar] Need a couple of more complex examples

[Dr. David Kirkby]

Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Dr. David Kirkby <address@hidden> ha escrit:
>
> > address@hidden:~$ /usr/local/bin/tar --help
> [...]
> > However, there are no examples of how to use the longer format
> > options.
>
> For more examples and detailed discussions of them, please read the tar
> documentation. The help summary is not intended to replace it.

Thank you Sergey,

I realise the help summary is not the place to learn everything about tar. But 
*one* single example showing the use of both the normal short options, plus a 
single long option, would take up only a single line of extra output.

Something as simple as:

"tar -cf foo.tar --posix foo (create POSIX format tar file of directory 'foo')"

would have indicated something very useful. I personally would have thought that 
a good tradeoff, for the single extra line of output it took up.

I realise my subject title had the world 'couple' in it, but one could replace 
that by 'single'!

Currently,

$ tar --help

outputs 278 lines. Personally I would have thought increasing the volume of 
output by 0.4% would have been a small price to pay for the potential gain.

Dave