Re: [Bug-tar] Modifying Volume Label with tar.

[Helmut Waitzmann]

Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> writes:

>> $ tar -V something -cf bar.tar --files-from=/dev/null

>having to know the name of /dev/null on this platform.

If you don't want to use /dev/null, you can use any empty data source
(file or pipe) instead of /dev/null for reading.

But /dev/null is a widely-known device:  It is defined in the »Single
UNIX Specification«.  So really each flavor of a unix-like OS should have
it.
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