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David Moberg wrote:
>
> Why exactly is the v option necessary?

Ah, I see.  Using the -v actually makes it harder 
(because it puts extra info in front of the filename,
which then needs to be cut out).

> I only get that data when I add the v option, which doesn't
> seem necessary.

Quite right.  I've been including the -v for years.
Silly me.

> I'm a little confused about these tar options, could 
> you please clarify how they work?

-v is for verbose output (which we definitely don't 
want in this case).

Thanks for pointing out my error.

Cheers,
Steven

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