tar frustration (was Re: relative pathname question!)
Ron Natalie
ron at topaz.rutgers.edu
Mon Aug 15 05:17:42 AEST 1988
The reason you can't just do "tar cv `cat filenames`" is that tar will always
search down through directories. Someone pointed out that Gilmore's PD tar
has a -T option that will allow you to avoid this while reading a file. If
this is so, I suggest people get a copy. My cpio-user-interfaced tar is not
really distribution quality but it does work.
-Ron
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