Some options... disappear!

[Pasquale Federico Zema]

Hello everybody,
 I'm running Slackware 8.0 - Linux 2.4.5 on a Celeron (Coppermine); it
looks like if some options, in particular circumstances, were not
considered:


1) in the following command, I had to use twice the option "--verbose",
otherwise no filenames were printed:

nice -19 tar --create --bzip2 --verbose --verbose --one-file-system \
 --exclude="$tmpdirname" --numeric-owner \
 --after-date="${oldm}/${oldd}/${oldy} 00:01" \
 --file=$tar_file "$@" 1> $tar_log


2) in this command, a single "--one-file-system" option did not work, I
had to repeat it:

nice -19 tar --create --bzip2 --one-file-system --one-file-system \
 --exclude="$tmpdirname" --numeric-owner "$@" | \
 nice -19 split -b 620m - ${tar_file}_


Every variable used in this command works fine with other combinations
of options; in particular, I could notice that the first command works
fine if I use "--gzip" instead of "--bzip2", and that the second command
started to fail when I first tried to feed the archive directly to the
"split" instead of using the "--file" option.

Please feel free to contact me for any request for details.

Thank you in advance
Federico


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