[svlug] Re: Mass copying

[Dagmar d'Surreal]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, AK wrote:

> > dagmar at evil:~$ tar --help | egrep "(zip|compress)" && tar --version
> >   -y, --bzip2, --bunzip2             filter the archive through bzip2
> >   -z, --gzip, --ungzip               filter the archive through gzip
> >   -Z, --compress, --uncompress       filter the archive through compress
> >       --use-compress-program=PROG    filter through PROG (must accept -d)
> > tar (GNU tar) 1.13
> >  
> > Copyright (C) 1988, 92,93,94,95,96,97,98, 1999 Free Software Foundation,
> > Inc.
> > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> > PURPOSE.
> > 
> 
> This is what is says on my system
> 
> anmol at toutatis:~$ tar --help | egrep "(zip|compress)" && tar --version
>   -j, --bzip2                        filter the archive through bzip2
>   -z, --gzip, --ungzip               filter the archive through gzip
>   -Z, --compress, --uncompress       filter the archive through compress
>       --use-compress-program=PROG    filter through PROG (must accept -d)
> tar (GNU tar) 1.13.19
> Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
> see the file named COPYING for details.
> Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.

Ah yes, but over the long term, my money is on -y being the argument that
will probably turn out to be the permanent one, since -y is what the
pristine source from ftp.gnu.org uses.