On Jan 26, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Enrico Placci wrote:
o On Tiger (10.4) tar is gnutar is GNU tar 1.14 (and supports --no-same-owner)
Fascinating. Upon further investigation, the *man pages* for tar on Tiger are not gnutar, even though the binaries are.
I don't think you get it right... This is my situation (and yours is probably similar): I have bsd tar in /usr/bin/tar and bsd tar manual in /usr/share/man/man1/tar.1 .
If you're on 10.4 and /usr/bin/tar isn't gnutar you have done something to modify it: [g5:~] dluke% sw_vers ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.4.8 BuildVersion: 8L127 [g5:~] dluke% /usr/bin/tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.14 Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License; see the file named COPYING for details. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. Modified to support extended attributes. In previous versions of Mac OS X, tar was actually cpio. -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- dluke@geeklair.net ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+