Live user <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/11/2012 11:54, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Live user wrote: > > > >> The original tar archive was generated by Android BackupManager, which > >> is not including the trailing slash for directories. Is there any > >> possibility to do the same with GNU Tar? > > > > I believe not, but star allows you to do this with: > > > > -no-dirslash don't append a slash to directory names > > > > as long as you don't tell it to create "old tar" archives. > > star is not available for some operating systems, which is even worse if > you are using windows.
It seems that you are incorrectly informed. Star runs on all platforms of interest. What platform are you using? Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
