Change tar to GNU

[Stijn Hoop]

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 Smørgrav wrote:
> > > Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> writes:
> > > > find $PATH -newermt 20050214 | xargs tar cf new.tar
> > > 
> > > 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:
> > > 
> > > find $PATH -newermt 2005-02-14 | tar -c -f new.tar -T/dev/stdin
> > 
> > Won't find -print0 | xargs -0 ... work in all cases?
> 
> 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

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