Public bug reported: Hi all,
I found a bug in "split". I want to tar some files but some of them have wrong permissions. tar puts out an exit code 2 "Cannot open: Permission denied". That is good because in my script I can catch this error and react to this. $ tar -c -f /tmp/test.tar -C /media/testpath testfile ; echo $? tar: testfile: Cannot open: Permission denied tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors 2 Unfortunately my tar directory is too big to save it in one file on my filesystem that I have to split the archive. But doing this "split" does not get the error code 2 from standard input (tar) and does not break as it should: $ tar -c -f - -C /media/testpath testfile | split - ; echo $? tar: testfile: Cannot open: Permission denied tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors 0 In the end I got a tar file without files that have no permissions and my script does not break because of error code 0. ---- Ubuntu 18.04.1 tar 1.29b coreutils 8.28 ---- Best regards, Alexander ** Affects: coreutils (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1792930 Title: split does not break on error when reading from standard input To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/1792930/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs