Re: [Bug-tar] Tar doesn't stop tape after extracting all specified files

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thinking about it a bit more, the name "copy" is a bit misleading,
> since the two occurrences of the file may not be copies.  Perhaps
> "occurrence" instead of "copy"?

Yes, I guess so.
 
> Also, it would be useful to give the user a way to extract an
> arbitrary set of files from an archive.  This could be done by having
> an --occurrence=N option, to let you select the Nth occurrence of a
> file from the archive.
> 
> The option should be cumulative, e.g.:
> 
>   tar --occurrence=3 foo --occurrence=2 bar

Nice idea. By the way, it would also make sense with --delete, wouldn't
it?


Regards,
Sergey