Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 16:15:54 +1000 From: Mark.Andrews@isc.org To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tar not following links now? Message-ID: <200208090615.g796Fsgs098419@drugs.dv.isc.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "09 Aug 2002 15:18:45 %2B0930." <1028872126.3108.5.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
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> On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 15:05, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > The "new" behavior is the correct behavior. I'm not sure when or why > > things were broken in your 4.6-PRERELEASE example. The option you want > > is the '-h' option. > > But that dereferences _all_ symlinks, not just ones on the command line. > > I guess I really want -H (like du has). > > I don't understand why it changed though. Say you have: link1 -> file1 file1 "tar c link1 file1" should preserve the symbolic link. Mark > > -- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Mark Andrews, Internet Software Consortium 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews@isc.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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