Thanks for the bug report! I installed this patch. doc: suggest Bash for large-fd script * doc/tar.texi (Multi-Volume Archives): Suggest Bash for shell script that might use >&10. Problem reported by Edward F Eaglehouse in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2012-02/msg00002.html>. diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi index a52b322..3d82d25 100644 --- a/doc/tar.texi +++ b/doc/tar.texi @@ -11435,7 +11435,10 @@ archive being created (as given by @option{--file} option) and
@smallexample @group -#! /bin/sh +#! /bin/bash +# For this script it's advisable to use a shell, such as Bash, +# that supports a TAR_FD value greater than 9. + echo Preparing volume $TAR_VOLUME of $TAR_ARCHIVE. name=`expr $TAR_ARCHIVE : '\(.*\)-.*'`
