Re: [Bug-tar] apparent tar-1.14 bug using -C with --null --files-from

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi

Ed Leaver <address@hidden> wrote:

> Including the "-C directory" option within the filelist.txt file
> specified with the --files-from=filelist.txt option, while not
> completely general, is "good enough" for present purposes. This
> combination works when the lines within filelist.txt are terminated with
> '\n', but I have not been able to make it work with --null and they are
> terminated with '\0'.

Option --null disables special handling of -C in file lists. This
behavior is documented (see
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/tar_99.html). The
reason for it is that `--null' was designed to handle output from other
programs (e.g. find) which are unlikely to produce any tar command line
options.

> BTW -- your new --skip-path=N (or --skip-element) is Really Neat --

Thank you :^)

> any chance of making it work within --files-from so one can change the value
> of N between files in the filelist?

There is a number of options that I would like to handle within
file lists, --files-from is one of them.

Regards,
Sergey