tar under Interactive unix

Conor P. Cahill cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Thu Oct 11 22:10:32 AEST 1990


In article <1990Oct10.211911.9236 at robobar.co.uk> ronald at robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:
>cpcahil at virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>
>> The one included with System V R3.2 and later is the result of the Xenix
>> tar being merged back into the AT&T tar.
>
>Does the generic 3.2 tar support the 'q' option that SCO does (though
>*un*documented) which says something like "stop after the first matching
>file" ?

A simple test of "tar -qvf -" before posting the question would have
answered your question:

	tar: q: unknown option
	Usage:.....

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