John Stanley <johnst...@verizon.net> wrote: > 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: >
A directory is determined by checking for the directory type and not by checking for a trailing slash..... But what do you expect from this? Skipping a directory just means not updating meta data. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily