Re: [Bug-tar] Filenames with spaces not handled properly

[Tim Kientzle]

On Jan 25, 2011, at 5:57 PM, Terry Moore wrote:
> I routinely clean up old files after a time.  Some of these files have spaces 
> in the file name.  I have a Solaris 10 server.  With tar, I used to have my 
> ksh script capture and change the IFS ksh variable.  I save it to OIFS, set 
> it to just a newline character, and then do the tar using an include file 
> containing the list of files I want to put on the tape.  When the tar is 
> done, I put the IFS back the way it was from OIFS.  
>   This has worked quite well in the past,...

Is this behavior of Solaris 10 tar documented somewhere?

I looked at the online Solaris 10 documentation, but can't
find any reference to IFS being obeyed by Solaris 10 tar:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19253-01/816-5165/6mbb0m9td/index.html

Tim