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From: | Antonio Diaz Diaz |
Subject: | Re: Improvement of man pages of TAR |
Date: | Tue, 15 Feb 2022 19:07:46 +0100 |
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Paul Eggert wrote:
Perhaps a rewrite of the diagnostic instead? Something like this? $ tar -cf foo.tar a b c foo.tar d e f g tar: foo.tar: archive cannot contain itself; not dumped
Excellent idea! This makes explicit the cause of the problem.
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