Re: [Bug-cpio] cpio can't read large files

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Sean Fulton <address@hidden> wrote:

> Glitch: Directories read off of the tar archive have a trailing slash, 
> while those read off of find don't. Any ideas?

Indeed, tar traditionally suffixes directory names with a slash. I
didn't think about it. Do you think it is worth implementing some
command line option to suppress this behavior? In the meantime, it can
be handled by piping tar output through the following command:

   sed 's,/$,,'

Regards,
Sergey