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Re: [Bug-tar] A bug involving cat and multi-volume archives
From: |
Sergey Poznyakoff |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] A bug involving cat and multi-volume archives |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:23:59 +0200 |
TJ <address@hidden> wrote:
> and everything works fine. It would be much easier to simply do:
>
> cat /mnt/cdrom/archive.[1-2].tar | tar -xM
You cannot concatenate multivolume archives and expect the output to
be a valid tar archive. Use `tarfile' program to do so:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2004-09/msg00082.html
Regards,
Sergey