Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 17:17:13 -0700 From: Milo Hyson <milo@cyberlifelabs.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: tar acting strange with -T Message-ID: <9BF45D7B-D9ED-4B09-8C6E-0ED849260601@cyberlifelabs.com>
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tar seems to be misbehaving when used with the -T switch. If I run the following: find somebigdir > /tmp/file-list tar -cjf /tmp/tarball.tar.bz2 -T /tmp/file-list I get no errors. However, when I go to unpack it: tar -xyf /tmp/tarball.tar.bz2 I get several errors about files not found in the archive. It's always the same files. I've checked to ensure there's nothing special about them. If I try to create the same tarball without using a file-list: tar -cjf /tmp/tarball.tar.bz2 somebigdir I get no errors during unpacking. Running find on this unpacked set confirms the file-list matches exactly that which I'm trying to use with the -T switch. Unless I'm overlooking something obvious, I can only conclude that tar's handling of -T is funky. Any suggestions? I'm using a fresh installation of 7.2-RELEASE on amd64 installed from an ISO. -- Milo Hyson Chief Scientist CyberLife Labs, Inc.
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