bsdtar '--exclude pattern' problems

[Tim Kientzle]

Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:
> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 
>>According to the tar(1) manual, the file parameters are supposed to
>>come after all of the option parameters.
> 
> Ah, of course! I don't know why I wrote it wrong (some months ago
> probably). Thank you.

gtar and bsdtar do parse options a little
differently, so a few people may need to
adjust their scripts.

Rationale: gtar requires the GNU
getopt library and exploits a few special
features of that library. bsdtar is designed
to work with several different getopt
libraries, so restricts itself to
somewhat more generic behavior.

Tim Kientzle