Subject: Re: ftp and tar annoyances
To: Brad Salai <bsalai@tmonline.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/13/1997 12:04:31
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Brad Salai wrote:
> There is a thing about tar that makes it slightly harder to use than it
> might otherwise be.
>
> You have to get the options in the right order,
>
> tar -zxvpf bin.tar.gz works, but
>
> tar -zxvfp bin.tar.gz doesn't
>
> Once you know this, only the occasional tyop causes problems, but why does
> it have to be that way?
>
Ask the FSF, or possibly update pax as OpenBSD has to be able to
handle all the tar options (& use it instead).
> As for ftp, mget is a nice idea, but it asks you to confirm that you still
> want each file as it comes up. This makes it impossible to just get a
> collection of files, either by matching a pattern, or listing the files,
> without sitting there.
>
Try 'prompt' before 'mget'.
David/abs
.:. "I'm not an angel... I'm not that quaint..." .:.