Re: [Bug-tar] Wildcard in combination of "-C" option

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Alex Antener <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> I don't know if this is worth a bug report, but it looks like GNU tar
> does not accept wildcards in combination of the -C option.

Wildcards are expanded by shell, not by tar.  Tar reats all its
non-optional arguments as file names.  When you call it like this:

> > tar -C ~/foobar -czf foobar.tar.gz *.sql

the shell tries to find files matching *.sql and replaces it with
their names.  Since there are no matching files in the cwd, it leaves
the argument as is and then invokes tar.

Regards,
Sergey