> > > This small wrapper program will make other programs see files and > > > directories in a consistent, sorted order. This is e.g. usefull if you > > > want your tarballs to be a bit more rsyncable. > > > > How is this better than tar cvf foo.tar $(find foo | sort) ? > > I guess that if you try to do it for something ass big as the kernel > source tree (for example), you would exceed both the maximal number of > arguments and the maximal length of the command line. Moreover, that > would fail with oddly-named files/directories that contain spaces, > carriage returns or tabs in their name...
That's what find foo | sort | xargs tar rvf foo.tar is for. Handles spaces, no command-line length overflow, no nothing, and does the same, methinks.
