Idea for tar feature
Tim Kientzle
kientzle at freebsd.org
Sat Mar 26 23:42:59 PST 2005
Christopher Nehren wrote:
>
> Not from gtar, but rather OpenBSD's tar: the -s option, which allows you
> to perform s/// replacements on archive paths.
This is a good idea. There's already a hook in the
source for doing pathname edits, so the only trick is
implementing the actual substitution code. I think that
the Henry Spencer regex(3) routines in the FreeBSD libc
should fill the bill nicely.
I'll add it to my TODO list. ;-)
Tim
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