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Re: [Bug-tar] FeatureRequest: add K, M, G, T tags to the -L option
From: |
Renich Bon Ciric |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] FeatureRequest: add K, M, G, T tags to the -L option |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:08:31 -0500 |
> Yes, that's reasonable. I have installed the attached patch. It allows
> for using suffix prefixes with -L and --record-size options. Notice,
> that if the argument to -L has no size suffix, it is still treated as
> kilobytes.
This is very useful! Thank you for the hard work and letting us all
benefit from it ;)
> It can be done using the --new-volume-script option with the
> script from subsection 9.6.1 of the Tar Manual[1].
Understood. Very useful too. It would be nice, though, if you could,
later on, implement an --auto-rename or -ar option so no need for a
script file.
In any case, thank you so much, Sergey, for the work.