From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 17: 7:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35E9437B400 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 17:07:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rotini.customfilmeffects.com (rotini.customfilmeffects.com [66.134.82.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5E4F43E5E for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 17:07:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@customfilmeffects.com) Received: from ethel (lan08.customfilmeffects.com [192.168.1.8]) by rotini.customfilmeffects.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g72NRRR31500 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 16:27:27 -0700 Message-ID: <00a801c23a7e$64af3710$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> From: "David Smithson" To: "FreeBSD-Questions" Subject: tar? how to force alphanumneric order in archives Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 16:43:24 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello friends. I have another question concerning TAR backups. So, I'm using scripts to backup batches of directories full of image sequences. A typical line of the script looks like: tar cvf /dev/nrsa0 imagesequencedir The frames always write to tape out of order. How can I force the files to write in alphanumeric order without having to feed the filenames to tar with a text file? -- David Smithson - Systems Administrator Custom Film Effects To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message