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[Bug-tar] RFC: quiet-option for tar-1.19
From: |
Harald Koenig |
Subject: |
[Bug-tar] RFC: quiet-option for tar-1.19 |
Date: |
Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:21:44 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) |
Hello *,
this is not (really) a bug report but a RFC for a new feature/option
which I'm already using for years (based on request of some colleagues).
this quiet-option might be usefull for other tar users too, so here is my patch
(attached).
rationale for the patch: using "tar --compare" gives very verbose output
if owner/group/permissions have changed (e.g. when extracting a source tar file
from the net and later I'd like to check which source files I have
modified/patched).
this makes it somewhat hard not to miss the "important" output lines (e.g.
size/md5 changed).
the patch adds a new option "-Q" or "--quiet" which gives adds two "quiet
levels"
(giving 3 verbosity level alltogether: "normal default", "reasonable quiet"
and "completely quiet" (more or less a > /dev/null) when specified twice).
over the time, I only use the first quiet level, the additional "-QQ" feature
seems to be more or less academic to me today;-)
my typical usage is
tar zdQf tool-sources.tar.gz
which shows "exactly" the relevant changes/filenames to me...
any comments or takers?
thanks,
Harald Koenig
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tar-1.19-quiet.patch
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- [Bug-tar] RFC: quiet-option for tar-1.19,
Harald Koenig <=