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Date:      Tue,  4 Jul 2000 09:42:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      jblaine@mitre.org
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   bin/19698: /usr/sbin/tar --help does not match 'man tar' for option '--exclude'
Message-ID:  <20000704164241.F2BE637B997@hub.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         19698
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       /usr/sbin/tar --help does not match 'man tar' for option '--exclude'
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jul 04 09:50:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jeff Blaine
>Release:        4.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
The MITRE Corp.
>Environment:
FreeBSD kickflop 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #4: Sun Jul  2 12:37:52 EDT 2000     root@kickflop:/usr/src/sys/compile/BUNK  i386
>Description:
tar --help reports:

    --exclude FILE          exclude file FILE

man tar reports:

    --exclude pattern       Exclude files matching the pattern (don't
                            extract them, don't add them, don't list
                            them).

The man page is correct.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Fix the help-printing-section of the source code for tar :)

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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