RE: [Bug-tar] Filenames with spaces not handled properly

[Terry Moore]

No.  I do not have a Solaris 10 document anywhere that supports it.  I found 
the trick long ago in "Unix Shell Programming", by Setphen G. Kochan and 
Patrick H. Wood, page 266 (Copyright 1985).  I have been using it for the last 
four years in this cleanup.  You can type:
                                echo "$IFS" | od -b
To see it.  I found it on Solaris 10 and it works. But not with gtar. 
  As a matter of fact, I went ahead and used the original tar command back in 
place and it worked perfectly last night.  I retried the command with the 
--no-unquote argument this morning, and it did not work.   
  I appreciate the FABULOUS work you and others have done to create a GREAT 
product like gtar.  I wish I had the knowledge to help, but I am a scripter, 
not a programmer.  The book I reference was my very first Unix tome and I used 
it to learn on a AT&T B100, long, long ago.  
       Thank You, Tim!
        Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Kientzle [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 9:13 AM
To: Terry Moore
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] Filenames with spaces not handled properly

On Jan 25, 2011, at 5:57 PM, Terry Moore wrote:
> I routinely clean up old files after a time.  Some of these files have spaces 
> in the file name.  I have a Solaris 10 server.  With tar, I used to have my 
> ksh script capture and change the IFS ksh variable.  I save it to OIFS, set 
> it to just a newline character, and then do the tar using an include file 
> containing the list of files I want to put on the tape.  When the tar is 
> done, I put the IFS back the way it was from OIFS.  
>   This has worked quite well in the past,...

Is this behavior of Solaris 10 tar documented somewhere?

I looked at the online Solaris 10 documentation, but can't
find any reference to IFS being obeyed by Solaris 10 tar:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19253-01/816-5165/6mbb0m9td/index.html

Tim