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Re: the description of -A / --concatenate is inconsistent
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Benno Schulenberg |
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Re: the description of -A / --concatenate is inconsistent |
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Tue, 2 May 2023 17:08:28 +0200 |
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Hi Sergey,
Op 01-05-2023 om 19:25 schreef Sergey Poznyakoff:
As a matter of fact, both are appended. You can easily confirm that if
you used the -i option when testing the resulting archive, [...]
Ah. Indeed. I didn't read far enough in the man page. :/
But... In the texi document it says: "--concatenate removes the
end-of-archive marker from the target archive before *each* new
archive is appended." (Emphasis added.) And it mentions the use
of --ignore-zeros only when `cat` has been used.
That being said, I agree that this mode of operation is confusing and
had better be fixed.
Thanks.
Benno
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