tar --delete

albi at scii.nl albi at scii.nl
Fri May 13 04:33:07 PDT 2005


On Fri, 13 May 2005 13:26:09 +0200
Pietro Cerutti <pietro at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> can anyone explain why in the FreeBSD version of tar there isn't any 
> --delete option?

no idea

> Is there a workaround to make tar deleting a file in the archive
> (without  extracting, deleting, re-tarring) ?

gnu tar is here : /usr/ports/archivers/gtar

The Free Software Foundation's "tar" tape archiver.

GNU tar saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive,
and can restore individual files from the archive.  It includes
multivolume support, the ability to archive sparse files, automatic
archive compression/decompression, remote archives and special
features that allow tar to be used for incremental and full backups.
This distribution also includes rmt, the remote tape server.

Note that this port will install these utilities with a 'g' prefix,
e.g. gtar, but the texinfo documentation will refer to them without
the 'g' prefix.

WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/


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