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| From: | Joerg Schilling |
| Subject: | Re: [Bug-tar] feature request: access to archive members by applications like grep, md5sum, ... |
| Date: | Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:00:24 +0100 |
| User-agent: | nail 11.2 8/15/04 |
Hansjoerg Lipp <address@hidden> wrote:
> As I (and other people I asked) couldn't find any tar option or another
> tool which solves this problem, I wrote a patch for GNU tar which allows
> something like this:
>
> $UNPACK | tar E 'grep -q $EXPRESSION && printf %s\\n "$TAR_NAME"'
>
> You can find the patch (which is tested with GNU/Linux and Tru64) at
>
> http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/phy31407/tar/tar-1.14.90-e-03.diff.20041122.01
> (applies to tar 1.14.90).
>
> It introduces the operation mode 'E' (for execute) which executes a
It is a really bad idea to reuse option letters that arer already used
by other tar implementations for many years.
Solaris tar uses -E since 1997......
Jörg
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