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Re: : [Bug-tar] feature request: allow comments in files for the (-T and
From: |
Martin Simmons |
Subject: |
Re: : [Bug-tar] feature request: allow comments in files for the (-T and -X options |
Date: |
Sun, 7 Nov 2004 22:54:13 +0000 (GMT) |
>>>>> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:26:45 +0100, "Anton Tichawa" <address@hidden> said:
Anton> Recently I started automating backups, using tar with file lists (-T
and =
Anton> -X options). It seems that comments, i. e. lines starting with '#',
are =
Anton> not allowed in such files, e. g. with a a file "weekly":
Anton> # files to include in weekly backups
Anton> /usr/src/dataman/*
Anton> /var/log/boot*
Anton> tar produces an error when called with
Anton> tar cvzf blah -T weekly
Anton> but things work fine when I remove the comment.
Anton> IMHO, the possibility to include comments to self-document file lists =
Anton> would be very nice.
The -T option is also used to archive lists of files generated by other
programs, e.g. find, so having a comment syntax would be bad idea (filenames
can begin with # too).
You could try passing the commented file through grep or sed to generate a
temporary file for the -T option (or use -T -).
__Martin