Hi, So, considering the advantages and limitations of the 'ustar' format, I was thinking that it would be super helpful to me if Tarlz had a 'scan' or 'simulate' operation that basically would do the following:
tarlz --scan foo1 foo2 foo3 tarlz --simulate foo1 foo2 foo3 When --scan or --simulate is called, it scans whatever folders or files are appended after --scan or --simulate and sees if those elements meet the requirements of the 'ustar' format. This would be so useful to me because I am sure I have many folders or files on my machine that do not meet the 'ustar' format, and I would like to be able to archive and compress those folders and files at some point without having to waste time finding out after compressing lots of data that some of the files or folders can't be archived. Is anyone aware of a utility that does this already? I can't think of one, and GNU Tar doesn't have a feature like this. It makes a great deal of sense for Tarlz to possibly have a feature like this, though, since it by default uses 'ustar' for a very good reason. Thank you, Timothy Beryl Grahek _______________________________________________ Lzip-bug mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lzip-bug
