Vladimir A. Pavlov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Pavel,
>
> > Just a nit, here should be (for readers):
> >
> > $ tar -c file | tar -t dir
>
> Oops, thanks you. That's exactly what I mean.
>
> > I don't like the '--ignore-missing' approach. That adds another
> > non-symetric option to tar. We have the '--ignore-failed-read' option
> > which works for archive creation and --ignore-missing works just for
> > archive extraction.
>
> How can we solve this? AFAIU you suggest something like reusing
> --ignore-failed-read for the feature in question (correct me if I'm wrong).
Well, there are many options in gtar that do not follow a scheme but just serve
a single purpose. For this reason, they are hard to remember.
The current proposal would be covered by a general method in star:
errctl=
See: http://cdrtools.sourceforge.net/private/man/star/star.1.html
page 21 ff.
Jörg
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