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Subject: Adding remove file option to BSD tar?
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What do people think about adding an equivalent to
gtars --remove-files?

Its an option I find myself longing for on a regular
basis and hence end up installing gtar and using that
which kind of defeats the point of having bsd tar.

So what do people think about adding this option?

    Steve


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