Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:50:47 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan@hst.org.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Experience Message-ID: <200609140850.47347.jonathan@hst.org.za> In-Reply-To: <B287514C-5132-459E-81BB-7D7134E9A2D6@shire.net> References: <20060911211241.GA2211@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> <200609140829.35834.jonathan@hst.org.za> <B287514C-5132-459E-81BB-7D7134E9A2D6@shire.net>
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On Thursday 14 September 2006 08:40, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > On Sep 14, 2006, at 12:29 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > > > In fact, as I discovered a few days ago (after all, how often does > > one read tar(1)'s manpage?), you only need to use -z and -j when > > creating a tar archive. bsdtar(1) recognises bzip2 and gzip > > compression on reading an archive and handles them automatically. > > old habits die hard > > :-0 Exactly. I wondered, when I saw the entry in tar(1)'s manpage, how many other little tricks I don't know because I just do it the old way. If I ever get a supply of tuits (round ones are best, apparently), I might start re-reading the documentation for things I already know how to do, just to find out what I'm missing. Jonathan
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