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Re: tar 1.13, -C and -T don't work together
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: tar 1.13, -C and -T don't work together |
Date: |
Tue, 3 Sep 2002 08:50:14 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Greg Wooledge <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 09:36:21 -0400
>
> I'm using GNU tar 1.13 on HP-UX 10.20. One of my users is writing a
> backup script using GNU tar and wants to combine the -C and --files-from
> switches, like this:
>
> .... | tar rvf $writeto -C /a/directory/name --files-from -
>
> No matter what ordering or spelling we use for the -C/--directory and
> -T/--files-from options, it seems that -C is completely ignored whenever
> -T is used. If I change the tar command to this:
>
> .... | (cd /a/directory/name; tar rvf $writeto --files-from -)
>
> then it works as expected.
Do you have the same problem with tar 1.13.25? I seem to remember that
it has fixes in this area.
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/