Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 21:30:02 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/35087: TAR does not recurse directories if it runs into Message-ID: <200203110530.g2B5U2V70367@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/35087; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/35087: TAR does not recurse directories if it runs into Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 00:24:03 -0500 (EST) On 24-Feb-2002 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: | | Are you sure this is not some bug of shell quoting, or the way you | invoke | tar(1)? It seems to work nicely here, for the filename you gave as an | example. Perhaps there is a problem, and if you provided us with the | exact | script and/or program that invokes tar(1) we could research this more |:) | It's reproduciable only when the filenames are specified individually or with a filelist (see PR gnu/34939). The following is from a 4.5-STABLE machine last cvsup'd Feb. 28: $ pwd /tmp $ mkdir test $ cd test $ touch foo $ touch "foo\bar" $ touch foobar $ ls -l total 0 -rw------- 1 mheffner wheel 0 Mar 11 00:18 foo -rw------- 1 mheffner wheel 0 Mar 11 00:18 foo\bar -rw------- 1 mheffner wheel 0 Mar 11 00:18 foobar $ cd .. $ tar cvf test.tar test/* test/foo tar: can't add file test/foar : No such file or directory test/foobar I haven't had a chance to test this on -current yet. Mike -- Mike Heffner <mheffner@[acm.]vt.edu> Blacksburg, VA <mikeh@FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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