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Re: [Bug-tar] when & why did -cv start printing the leading /
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Sergey Poznyakoff |
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Re: [Bug-tar] when & why did -cv start printing the leading / |
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Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:08:03 EET |
John R. Vanderpool <address@hidden> wrote:
> we used to auto cut & paste directly from the output of -cv to do restores
> but now they don't match due to leading / being present.
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> we can fix our code but am just curious about how that change came about?
GNU tar versions up to 1.15.1 in archive creation mode always print the
leading slash if it is present in the filename.
Latest alpha release (1.15.90) will not print the leading slash if it
is given --show-stored-names option and not given -P (--absolute-names)
option.
Regards,
Sergey