Quoth Connor Lane Smith: > I've written a quick patch for sltar which lets you create archives as > well as extract and list them. (It reads the files' paths in through > stdin.) I've not tested it extensively, but it seems to work well. > Maybe Enno could apply it to the sltar repo? Well really, that's most annoying. I've had a local patch of sltar to add create support for ages now, but had never quite cleaned it up to a state that I was happy sharing it, and here you come along with a fresh patch which is much nicer and cleaner than mine ever could have been. Thanks ;)
One thing which could be considered would be allowing specifying file / directory names on argv. While it complicates the code, and is a less flexible way of specifying things, it does add compatibility with a lot of scripts which will expect it. They will also expect recursive directory traversal, so 'tar c mydir/' will tar up everything under mydir. I know backwards compatibility, particularly with the unix ecosystem, is a dangerous rabbithole to jump in to, but this feature is probably worth it. Another feature which would be nice would be stripping of leading / and .. from path names when creating and extracting archives. So that things cannot be too impolite /dangerous. Nick
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