Hi,
I was wondering if it would be possible in the 'skip-old-files' option
warning messages, to have a distinction made between existing files and
existing directories, i.e., instead of, e.g., printing:
tar: ./usr/local: skipping existing file
print:
tar: ./usr/local/: skipping existing directory
This would make it much easier to parse existing files and existing
directories. I have been using the following simple patch to handle
this in my work:
+++ tar-master-1.26.90.new/src/extract.c 2012-11-06
18:18:28.853013706 -0500
@@ -644,8 +644,12 @@ maybe_recoverable (char *file_name, bool
switch (old_files_option)
{
case SKIP_OLD_FILES:
- WARNOPT (WARN_EXISTING_FILE,
- (0, 0, _("%s: skipping existing file"), file_name));
+ if (current_stat_info.had_trailing_slash)
+ WARNOPT (WARN_EXISTING_FILE,
+ (0, 0, _("%s/: skipping existing directory"),
file_name));
+ else
+ WARNOPT (WARN_EXISTING_FILE,
+ (0, 0, _("%s: skipping existing file"), file_name));
return RECOVER_SKIP;
case KEEP_OLD_FILES:
