Hi Frederick, > I have written a small script for adding a symbolic link to a tar file.
I suppose you mean a symbolic link not existing on a file system, right? > Internally my script does the following: > * Create a symbolic link in "/tmp" and have it point to "/usr/lib/libdog.so" > * Use "tar -r" along with "--transform" to add the symbolic link to the > tar file > * Delete the temporary link > > Is there a better way of doing this? I don't think so. What you did is quite reasonable. > Should a new command line option be added to the 'tar' program so that we > can do something like the following?: This doesn't seem to be a very often needed functionality. Beside obvious implementation for packaging purposes I can't think of other possible uses. So perhaps a special option is not needed, given that your script does the job. Regards, Sergey