Re: [Bug-tar] Directories are listed like files, no trailing slash shown

[Live user]

On 05/11/2012 11:54, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Live user wrote:
>
> > The original tar archive was generated by Android BackupManager, which
> > is not including the trailing slash for directories. Is there any
> > possibility to do the same with GNU Tar?
>
> I believe not, but star allows you to do this with:
>
>         -no-dirslash    don't append a slash to directory names
>
> as long as you don't tell it to create "old tar" archives.

star is not available for some operating systems, which is even worse if 
you are using windows.

Luckily, there's a much better way using pax:
cat list-of-files-and-folders.txt | pax -wd > archive.tar