[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Bug-tar] We found a bug in TAR
From: |
Sergey Poznyakoff |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] We found a bug in TAR |
Date: |
Wed, 16 May 2012 00:58:45 +0300 |
> I created the archive with this command:
> address@hidden:/# tar -cf /root/galaxyhungaria-2012-05-14.tar
> /Mentes/bergman/_var/www/galaxyhungaria/data/email/
> tar: A kezdő „/” eltávolítása a nevek elejéről
If my moderate knowledge of Hungarian serves me, this message
means that tar is removing leading slashes from file names. OK, that's
quite normal.
> address@hidden:/# tar -t /root/galaxyhungaria-2012-05-14.tar
No, that's wrong. The correct way is
tar -t -f /root/galaxyhungaria-2012-05-14.tar
Note the "-f", without it tar would read from the standard input, that's
why:
> But after I'm waiting until 4 hours and nothing happened I press a
It simply waited for the input.
> If I extract from the archive I can't see error. If the extracting
> was done I become a cursor again:
> address@hidden:~/tmp# tar -xf galaxyhungaria-2012-05-14.tar
OK
> Sorry again I will compare and make a few test with the Midnight
> Commander. I think this is the wrong.
Yes, it looks so.
Regards,
Sergey