The tale of aux.c

Re:The tale of aux.c by kps on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @10:19AM (#15338836)

  > For those that don't remember how tar works, the arguments are reversed compared to, say, cp.

Tar doesn't have positional file arguments; you use the 'f' flag to specify an archive file. You might be thinking of zip or some similar archiver in the DOS heritage.

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Re:The tale of aux.c by oblio on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:57AM (#15339788)

My bad, I was actually talking about a very common tar idiom which is almost an automatism for me:

tar cvf/czvf/cjvf archive files (or -cvf/-czvf/-cjvf).

I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually using tar by going:

tar -c files -f archive

Online tutorials seem to also use my form: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/04/unix-tar-command-example...

Either way, bad form, I'm glad they fixed it :)

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