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Re: Tar Feature Request


From: Paul Jarc
Subject: Re: Tar Feature Request
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 15:18:50 -0500
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"Andreas S. Oesterhelt" <address@hidden> wrote:
> In a Makefile for a project of mine I currently use
> a temporary symlink as a workaround.
>
> tarball-src: clobber
>   $(LN) -s current ../ijb-$(VERSION)-$(CODE_STATUS)
>   $(TAR) -C.. -cvhzf ijb-$(VERSION)-$(CODE_STATUS)-src.tar.gz 
> ijb-$(VERSION)-$(CODE_STATUS)
>   $(RM) ../ijb-$(VERSION)-$(CODE_STATUS)
>
> where "current" is the source dir's name. Apart from being 3 lines
> instead of one, this also forces -h for the source tree, which
> might not be desirable in all cases.

Instead of -h, you can use "tar ... symlink/.".


paul



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