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[Bug-tar] Re: Parsing the output of `tar tvf'
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Matt McCutchen |
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[Bug-tar] Re: Parsing the output of `tar tvf' |
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Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:11:11 -0500 |
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 06:53 +0100, Helmut Waitzmann wrote:
> As you can see, one cannot distinguish the two symlinks 'file ->' and
> 'file'. Sorry. tar -tvf is broken by design.
Come on! All tar needs is a --quoting-style option like ls to quote the
file names properly, and tar -tvf output will be unambiguous.
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Matt McCutchen, ``hashproduct''
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