1. To list contents of tar without actually extracting files. Most useful use-case that drove me to add this. 2. To get a list of extracted files for eyeballing and/or validation between expected and generated. 3. A roundabout way to list contents of a directory - user can tar and then untar with just verbose turned on. 4. For future needs - let's say user wants a diff of two directories - one way is to tar contents of these two directories separately and then diff the verbose generated by untar without expanding it, etc.
Magesh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 3:48 AM Subject: Re: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/tar TarEntry.java > Im curious what the usecase of the outfile attribute for all these > attributes. The only thing I can think of is to help validate the contents of > archives match expected contents. Or is there some other reason? > > -- > Cheers, > > Pete > > *------------------------------------------------------* > | "Computers are useless. They can only give you | > | answers." - Pablo Picasso | > *------------------------------------------------------* > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
