Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:32:11 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding remove file option to BSD tar? Message-ID: <44D8CA9B.6070306@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <020701c6bb0d$68ae7330$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> References: <020701c6bb0d$68ae7330$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk>
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On 08/08/06 12:09, Steven Hartland wrote: > What do people think about adding an equivalent to > gtars --remove-files? > > Its an option I find myself longing for on a regular > basis and hence end up installing gtar and using that > which kind of defeats the point of having bsd tar. > > So what do people think about adding this option? > > Steve Some people on this list might argue that you could do this another way, something like piping a tar extract to another tar create that excludes that file. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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