Re: [Bug-tar] Missing --files= flag in on-line manual example (incremental) ?

[Pavel Raiskup]

On Tuesday 08 of December 2015 14:34:30 derek terveer wrote:
> When viewing this page,
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Incremental-Dumps.html
> 
> There is an example,
> 
> ======================================================================
> To list the contents of an incremental archive, use `--list' (see section How 
> to List Archives), as usual. To obtain more information about the archive, 
> use `--listed-incremental' or `--incremental' combined with two `--verbose' 
> options(12):
> 
> tar --list --incremental --verbose --verbose archive.tar
> ======================================================================
> 
> I believe that there is a '--files=' missing after the second --verbose.

Thanks for the report.  There is missing '--file' option, yes:

 @smallexample
address@hidden --list --incremental --verbose --verbose archive.tar}
address@hidden --list --incremental --verbose --verbose --file archive.tar}
 @end smallexample

Pavel

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