From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 10 14:56:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 343371065670 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:56:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED91B8FC38 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:56:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id n7AEuYqq074116 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:56:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n7AEuX4E043792 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:56:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n7AEuXKc043789; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:56:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:56:32 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Karl Vogel Message-ID: <20090810145631.GC54485@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3F47B447-F165-40CA-8172-1B59594BFBCD@socket.net> <20090809033232.8EE8EB7F0@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090809033232.8EE8EB7F0@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94.2, clamav-milter version 0.94.2 on email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email2.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:56:35 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNU Tar and -T option X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:56:37 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 08), Karl Vogel said: > >> On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 16:31:48 -0500, > >> Jay Hall said: > > J> Has anyone had any luck using the -T option with GNU tar 1.16.1? I am > J> using the following command line. > J> /usr/local/gtar/bin/tar -c -T filelist -f - | dd of=/dev/nsa1 obs=128k > > I had no problems using that command line with GNU tar versions 1.14 and > 1.22. I'd grab the source and upgrade if I were you: > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.tar.gz gnutar 1.22 is in ports, which makes it even easier to test. bsdtar supports the -T option, too, so you shouldn't even need gnutar. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com