On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:35:52PM +0200, Eivind Uggedal wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
> wrote:
> > On OpenBSD without "-f" tar opens /dev/rst0 or whatever TAPE is set to.
>
> This was the main reason I created the patch. I ported OpenBSD pax/tar
> and I'm using it
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
wrote:
> On OpenBSD without "-f" tar opens /dev/rst0 or whatever TAPE is set to.
This was the main reason I created the patch. I ported OpenBSD pax/tar
and I'm using it now for my distro. Since it defaults to the tape dev
without -f- I have no
Nick said:
> Is - as a stdin/stdout file actually used many places? Because it
> seems awfully weird to do:
>
> zcat < a.tar.gz | tar -t -f -
>
> rather than
>
> zcat < a.tar.gz | tar -t
On OpenBSD without "-f" tar opens /dev/rst0 or whatever TAPE is set to.
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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 06:57:12PM +0100, Nick wrote:
> Is - as a stdin/stdout file actually used many places? Because it
> seems awfully weird to do:
>
> zcat < a.tar.gz | tar -t -f -
>
> rather than
>
> zcat < a.tar.gz | tar -t
>
> or even use -f /dev/stdin as FRIGN suggested.
>
> If it isn
Is - as a stdin/stdout file actually used many places? Because it
seems awfully weird to do:
zcat < a.tar.gz | tar -t -f -
rather than
zcat < a.tar.gz | tar -t
or even use -f /dev/stdin as FRIGN suggested.
If it isn't used often, I'd prefer we don't support this weird
syntax option. If it is
On Tue, 12 May 2015 12:22:35 +
Eivind Uggedal wrote:
Hey Eivind,
are you serious?
> + if (file[0] == '-')
This needs to be
> + if (file[0] == '-' && file[1] == '\0')
In any case, this could've also been done a bit more
axiomatically. That's what the stdin/stdout fd's
---
tar.1 | 4 +++-
tar.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tar.1 b/tar.1
index 6341e17da4d0..ff6578b56d5c 100644
--- a/tar.1
+++ b/tar.1
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ before beginning.
.It Fl f Ar file
Set
.Ar file
-as input | output archive instead of stdin | stdout.
+
