From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 18 09:38:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7423916A4CE; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:38:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pastinakel.tue.nl (pastinakel.tue.nl [131.155.2.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1440743D31; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:38:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: by pastinakel.tue.nl (Postfix, from userid 40) id 5E0AB14BC85; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:38:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by pastinakel.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F8D14BBDE; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:38:55 +0100 (CET) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j1I9ctJH024241; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:38:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stijn) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:38:55 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop To: ticso@cicely.de Message-ID: <20050218093855.GN8471@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <4214F3C2.4020102@alumni.rice.edu> <20050217195547.GA33893@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <86is4qfenb.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050218092709.GM8471@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20050218093502.GS753@cicely12.cicely.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OROCMA9jn6tkzFBc" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050218093502.GS753@cicely12.cicely.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on pastinakel.tue.nl X-Spam-DCC: : pastinakel.tue.nl 1074; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=6.3 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Level: cc: Kaspars cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Robert Watson cc: Steve Kargl Subject: Re: Change tar to GNU X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:38:59 -0000 --OROCMA9jn6tkzFBc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:35:03AM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:27:09AM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 09:36:40AM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > > > Steve Kargl writes: > > > > find $PATH -newermt 20050214 | xargs tar cf new.tar > > >=20 > > > Bad idea, for a number of different reasons (including file names > > > containing spaces or other special characters, and command line length > > > limits). The following is slightly better, but will still fail if you > > > have files with newlines in them: > > >=20 > > > find $PATH -newermt 2005-02-14 | tar -c -f new.tar -T/dev/stdin > >=20 > > Won't find -print0 | xargs -0 ... work in all cases? >=20 > xargs possibly starts tar several times and tar overwrites the archive > every time. > Even if you get tar to append to an existing archive it can't know > about hardlinked files spanning multiple calls. Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation! --Stijn --=20 What would this sentence be like if it weren't self-referential? --OROCMA9jn6tkzFBc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCFbevY3r/tLQmfWcRAojbAKCqE59E9q2msf/EwQfysjig2qg6zQCfXe74 Qxq6T1+jxt2rttea2s4fsHA= =u42F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OROCMA9jn6tkzFBc--