Re: [Gnu-arch-users] cvs export for tla?

[Jan Hudec]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 00:32:57 +0000, David Allouche wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 17:49 -0500, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:44:28AM -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> > 
> > > And you're right, -T - is much better than xargs, since xargs can't
> > > be told to only split on newlines.
> > 
> > xargs will also divide it up into multiple tar commands if the number
> > of files is too large to fit in a single command.  Oops. ;)
> 
> Yours truly actually bit the bullet once and came up with the _really_
> correct way to do export and to create tarballs with tla, even for files
> containing newlines in the names (even if some people think that caring
> for those cases is pedantry).
> 
> http://wiki.gnuarch.org/moin.cgi/Arch_20Recipes#head-777d973d8a18b72503cdf84fed81bd92522d899f
> 
> Those scripts might not be very portable, since they were written for
> bash. Wiki edits welcome.

Looking at the script I really think it's fully POSIX. Or at least it
would work in dash.

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