[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44007] test tar changes working directory in MXE-Octave ver 4.1.0+

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #26, bug #44007 (project octave):

To illustrate the differences between bsdtar and msys tar:
msys (GNU) tar:

>> cmd2 = 'tar_orig cvf /c/Users/philip/AppData/Local/Temp/oct-bPYuAk.tar -C .
dir2 f1';
>> [status, output] = system (cmd2);
>> output
output = dir2/
dir2/f2
f1
>>


bsdtar:

>> cmd = 'tar cvf C:\Users\philip\AppData\Local\Temp\oct-bPYuAk.tar -C . dir2
f1';
>> [status, output] = system (cmd);
a dir2
a dir2/f2
a f1
>> output
output =
>>

It turns out bsdtar echoes the file list to stderr rather than stdout,
apparently with archive "flagbits" prepended.
Is there a way to catch stderr using Octave's "system" command?



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