Bug 28915 - tar man page and tar usage disagree about -I
Summary: tar man page and tar usage disagree about -I
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: tar
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-22 20:10 UTC by David Lawrence
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-02-22 20:10:26 UTC
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Description Derek Tattersall 2001-02-22 20:10:22 UTC 
The command line option -I appears to be aliased to -j according to the
usage message from tar, but it means the name of a file of names to be
tarred up according to the man page.  The two sources should agree.
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-02-22 20:39:16 UTC 
Fixed in 1.13.19-2
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