freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 42, Issue 6

[Robert Klein]

On Freitag, 9. Januar 2004 14:04, Josef El-Rayes wrote:
> Robert Klein <RoKlein at roklein.de> wrote:
> have you noticed that i am _not_ using the '-'?
> tar xvfj file.tar.bz2 <-
>
> if you leave the '-' away then tar does not care
> about the order of the parameters.
>
> when you are using the dash before the arguments
> than the 'f' has to be just before the filename.
> tar -xvjf file.tar.bz2 <-

Oops, sorry.  I didn't notice the dash left out.  I stand 
corrected.

Best regards,
Robert