Adding remove file option to BSD tar?

[Eric Anderson]

On 08/08/06 12:09, Steven Hartland wrote:
> What do people think about adding an equivalent to
> gtars --remove-files?
> 
> Its an option I find myself longing for on a regular
> basis and hence end up installing gtar and using that
> which kind of defeats the point of having bsd tar.
> 
> So what do people think about adding this option?
> 
>     Steve


Some people on this list might argue that you could do this another way, 
something like piping a tar extract to another tar create that excludes 
that file.

Eric


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