Re: mistake in the man tar output , tar --version 1.30

[Bob Proulx]

george doumas wrote:
> DESCRIPTION  Option styles 
> The following command, written in the traditional style, instructs tar to 
> store all files from the directory /etc into the archivefile etc.tar 
> verbosely listing the files being archived:
> 
>        tar cfv a.tar /etc
> 
> The above command has a mistake. Instead you should say :
> The following command, written in the traditional style, instructs tar to 
> store all files from the directory /etc into the archive file etc.tar 
> verbosely listing the files being archived:
> 
>        tar cfv etc.tar /etc

Thank you for your bug report!  You are correct.  That is a typo in
the man page in versions up through 1.31.

This has fixed by the following commit.  When you upgrade to the next
version you should see the fix.

    
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/doc/tar.1?id=b0930da045d4dc9750097876f0a3f672dc99ad11

Thank you for your report!  Many eyes finds all bugs. :-)

Bob

commit b0930da045d4dc9750097876f0a3f672dc99ad11
Author: Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 14 12:48:16 2019 +0200

    Fix typo in manpage.

diff --git a/doc/tar.1 b/doc/tar.1
index 6602334..0ff1d53 100644
--- a/doc/tar.1
+++ b/doc/tar.1
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 .\" along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-.TH TAR 1 "May 16, 2018" "TAR" "GNU TAR Manual"
+.TH TAR 1 "January 14, 2019" "TAR" "GNU TAR Manual"
 .SH NAME
 tar \- an archiving utility
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ into the archive file
 verbosely listing the files being archived:
 .PP
 .EX
-.B tar cfv a.tar /etc
+.B tar cfv etc.tar /etc
 .EE
 .PP
 In
@@ -133,9 +133,9 @@ The example command above written in the
 could look like:
 .PP
 .EX
-.B tar -cvf a.tar /etc
+.B tar -cvf etc.tar /etc
 or
-.B tar -c -v -f a.tar /etc
+.B tar -c -v -f etc.tar /etc
 .EE
 .PP
 In
@@ -152,11 +152,11 @@ method.
 Here are several ways of writing the example command in this style:
 .PP
 .EX
-.B tar --create --file a.tar --verbose /etc
+.B tar --create --file etc.tar --verbose /etc
 .EE
 or (abbreviating some options):
 .EX
-.B tar --cre --file=a.tar --verb /etc
+.B tar --cre --file=etc.tar --verb /etc
 .EE
 .PP
 The options in all three styles can be intermixed, although doing so