Re: [Bug-tar] compressed archives within tar files

2014-03-15 Thread e-letter
On 15/03/2014, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > > No IMO, you may not pipe the product of extraction (files, directories > ..). I am not sure I understand your use case correctly. You basically > want convert Zip-standard archive to tar/pax? I am not aware of any > converter like this. Still, I don't se

[Bug-tar] compressed archives within tar files

2014-03-15 Thread e-letter
Readers, What is the risk of data corruption if a zip archive is added to a tarball? If there is in-sufficient space on the local disk that contains the zip archive, can the zip file be extracted and 'piped' to the tarball on the storage disk (accessible via USB connection to the local disk)?

[Bug-tar] redirect command with tar

2012-06-13 Thread e-letter
Readers, The command 'tar' is used to update a tar file stored on a portable hard disk drive, of files stored on a local hard disk: tar -uvf /path/to/portable/harddisk/ * In the command terminal, the list of files added to the tar file is shown. In future, can the redirect output command be