Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:38:55 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Change tar to GNU Message-ID: <20050218093855.GN8471@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050218093502.GS753@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050217192913.38170c-100000@fledge.watson.org> <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>
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--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 <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> 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--
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