Re: [Help-tar] colon in archive name and force local

[Reuti]

Hi,

> The first detail where I would like to verify my understanding is the
> reason why this feature was introduced in the first place. I'm assuming
> that the expected use case is to access remote tape device, which I can
> do even without the feature via pipe something like:
> 
>  $ tar cf - something | ssh remotehost "cat > /dev/sr0"

I use this often. But one should set:

set -o pipefail

as an error in `tar` gets undetected otherwise (or check the written archives 
afterwards).

-- Reuti