From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 3 0:14: 5 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 3103537B400 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 00:14:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB30F43E65 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 00:14:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@customfilmeffects.com) Received: from customfilmeffects.com ([63.193.146.211]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0H09005W4ARDHT@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 03 Aug 2002 00:14:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 00:12:23 -0700 From: David Smithson Subject: Re: tar? how to force alphanumneric order in archives To: FreeBSD-Questions Message-id: <3D4B8257.2060606@customfilmeffects.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020606 References: <00a801c23a7e$64af3710$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> 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 I assume I did not receive a response to my original message because: * I posted the message with a confusing subject * I posted the message during a mean-time at which knowledgable hackers around the globe are: ** drinking beers! ** sleeping ** too busy flaming over-zealous users * The subject of the posted message was not specifically FreeBSD related * I did not afford the greatest effort to finding a solution and thus repelled many battle-tested hackers. In any case, I believe the latter is most likely. I will try to incorporate into my rudimentary scripts a pipe function through ls that will sort the filenames in alpha-numeric order and feed them back to tar. Er... what a pain. A simple solution is right in front of me, I'm sure. Enterprise archive management for UNIX? Where is it? Does anyone need/want it? David Smithson wrote: >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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message