Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 09:51:30 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the M in tar Mcvf Message-ID: <200512260951.30072.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <d9d7f5a0512251330h65726133r7a74a68e2bb6ebf8@mail.gmail.com> References: <d9d7f5a0512251330h65726133r7a74a68e2bb6ebf8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 08:00 am, Teo De Las Heras wrote: > I looked through the man pages and online, but I can't find > information on what the M is for in 'tar Mcvf'. I constantly > see this as a way to archive / backup files. I find it in the man pages without problems: -M --multi-volume Create/list/extract multi-volume archive But watch out -- this is gnu-tar and on the later FreeBSD OS (5.x+) appears as gtar (also as gtar in man pages). For BSD tar on 5.4 I find "There is not yet any support for multi-volume archives" Malcolm
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