Re: [Bug-tar] Error messages and how to avoid them?

[Hugh Sasse]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:

> Hugh Sasse <address@hidden> ha escrit:
> 
> > I'm not entirely sure what this means.  Does it mean
> > 
> >    * the job completed successfully apart from the earlier errors,
> >      which now give this error exit.
> 
> Yes, exactly that.

Ok, thanks.
>  
> > Can I tell tar to truncate filenames that are too long (possibly
> > being warned if there are collisions as a result?
> 
> There are two options that could be used for that:
> 
> 1. `--strip-components', that removes the specified number of directory
> components from a file name (this option works when extracting from
> archive), and
> 
> 2. `--transform' option that alters file names according to a sed-like
> expression (this option can be used both when creating and when
> extracting). E.g. the command
> 
>   tar -cf archive.tar --transform 's,.*/,,'
> 
> removes all directory components from file names before storing them
> into the archive.

Ok, I think either of those will mess up the structure. I think I can 
manage without these files now that I have looked : they seem to be 
part of Sun Workshop builds, which will be no use on Windows, (or the
other unix systems I may migrate to later).
>    
> For a detailed description, see
>  http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/tar_107.html
> 
> > Do I need to do that at creation?
> 
> It depends a great deal on where you plan to extract your archive. 

NTFS, Windows XP, Cygwin.
> 
> Regards,
> Sergey
>  
        Thank you.
        Hugh