On Wednesday 02 February 2011 20:58, Cathey, Jim wrote: > ># find . -depth -print | pax -wd > outfile.tar > > > >That would be more portable (not all systems have /proc) > > Not all systems have a nice place you can safely write > a list file, either. One would also need to arrange to clean > up this file afterwards, and to make sure it was not included > in the list itself, or else is given to tar as an exclusion. > Ideally the list file is auto-generated, and's a name that can > never collide. mktemp stuff. > > Either way, potential complications. I'm still trying > to get used to /proc/self/fd/0 versus /dev/stdin!
find . -depth -print | tar ... -T - but you need a small fix for -T - to read stdin: -- vda diff -ad -urpN busybox.5/archival/tar.c busybox.6/archival/tar.c --- busybox.5/archival/tar.c 2011-01-31 05:50:34.000000000 +0100 +++ busybox.6/archival/tar.c 2011-02-03 03:59:05.000000000 +0100 @@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ static llist_t *append_file_list_to_list llist_t *newlist = NULL; while (list) { - src_stream = xfopen_for_read(llist_pop(&list)); + src_stream = xfopen_stdin(llist_pop(&list)); while ((line = xmalloc_fgetline(src_stream)) != NULL) { /* kill trailing '/' unless the string is just "/" */ char *cp = last_char_is(line, '/'); _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox