[ale] tar question

[tj at atlantageek.com (Tommie M. Jones)]

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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, John Mills wrote:

> Hi -
> 
> 
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, David S. Jackson wrote:
> 
> > I'm experimenting with tar, which I should know much better than
> > I do.  :-)
>   Hey, it's only risky if you want to unpack the archives some day.
> 

Actually my main screw up is 
'tar cvf *'

For those who haven't had their coffee yet this morning the 'f' option
says to send the tar output to a file.  Actually the first file after the
listing of the command line options.  So you end up overwriting the first
file that matches '*' with a 'big ole tarfile'(tm).
  

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