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Originally Posted by michaelrmgreen
If the man pages were a Wiki I'd edit the line for -f to say that it should be the last argument before the archive file name.
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Well - It does say that: In the synopsis at the top
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tar {-r | -u} -f archive-file [options] [files | directories]
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the -f is listed with the filename after it, and in the description,
again -f is listed with the file. This is the way this sort of thing is written in every man page.
So I guess the next thing to check is that
man(1) is right! (as if anyone actually reads these things.