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-C and -T do not play well together


From: A Braunsdorf
Subject: -C and -T do not play well together
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:18:31 -0500

If I do something like:

        tar -czf home.tgz -C /home/directory file1 file2 file3

it does not have the same effect as if the files are listed in a
file and -T is used:

        tar -czf home.tgz -C /home/directory -T FILES

in the latter case, the names in FILES are take relative to the
current directory, not the one specified by -C.

There doesn't seem to be a way to get the desired effect, and it
is difficult to achieve in other ways, so I'd call it a bug.  If
we wanted the files in FILES to be relative the current directory,
that could be specified before the -C, or (if -C worked with -T),
another -C could be used.

ab




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