Overwrite bsd tar

Damien Fleuriot ml at my.gd
Fri Sep 23 12:07:54 UTC 2011


On 9/23/11 2:04 PM, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> 2011-09-23 13:25, Esimorp E skrev:
>>
>> I would be grateful if anyone could help me out on how to overwrite
>> bsd tar with Gnu tar.
> 
> Thats not a good idea. If you want to use gnu tar then gtar is the
> command for you. Or copy tar to tar.bsd and make a symlink tar > gtar.


Even worse, what's going to happen when some BSD specific software tries
to pass BSD specific options to gnutar ?



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