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Bug 85985 - tar: man page: typo?
Summary: tar: man page: typo?
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High trivial (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2005-03-20 02:13 UTC by Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED)
Modified: 2005-03-20 11:27 UTC (History)
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Description Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-03-20 02:13:55 UTC 
In the manpage of tar:

*****
EXAMPLES
       tar -xvf foo.tar
              verbosely extract foo.tar

       tar -xzf foo.tar.gz
              extract gzipped foo.tar.gz

       tar -cjf foo.tar.bz2 bar/
              create  bzipped  tar  archive  of  the  directory   bar   called
              foo.tar.bz2

       tar -xjf foo.tar.bz2 -C bar/
              extract bzipped foo.tar.bz2 after changing directory to bar

       tar -xzf foo.tar.bz2 blah.txt
              extract the file blah.txt from foo.tar.bz2
*****

Please, notice the last example:

tar -xzf foo.tar.bz2 blah.txt

Shouldn't it be:

tar -xjf foo.tar.bz2 blah.txt

???

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. man tar
Comment 1 Elfyn McBratney (beu) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-03-20 04:06:16 UTC 
Missing metadata.xml, assuming base-system.
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2005-03-20 11:24:52 UTC 
tar has a metadata foo :P

fixed in cvs, thanks for the report
Comment 3 Elfyn McBratney (beu) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-03-20 11:27:19 UTC 
bah, bad checkout :P  /me takes note.