Re: [Bug-tar] Monthly backup doesn't expand files, but which are in the archive

[Joerg Schilling]

Steffen Nurpmeso <address@hidden> wrote:

> I've changed it back to how it was all the time, and only use "|
> xargs -0 tar -r -f $ar", adding the compression step later on.
> As far as i recall all this originated, long ago that is, from the
> problem that file lists stored in a file were not supported by all
> tar's around and for all possible operations, and this is a real
> pity, given that argument lists exceed so soon, and space is
> expensive.  Anyway, a mode to simply concatenate, and then
> a finalizer invocation would be great for my use case, otherwise.
> Maybe i'll switch to ar(1) instead, in the future.

A better solution may be to call:

        star -c -f some-file -find ....

This is even faster than using find | xargs.

Jörg

-- 
 EMail:address@hidden                    (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
       address@hidden (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/
 URL:  http://cdrecord.org/private/ 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/'