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Re: [Bug-tar] Workaround for extracting archives sparsely
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markk |
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Re: [Bug-tar] Workaround for extracting archives sparsely |
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Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:31:03 -0000 |
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Hi,
Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> Currently neither GNU tar nor star can do that, but the FreeBSD version
>> of tar can. It's in the bsdtar package in Debian-based Linux
distributions.
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> Star does this since 1990.
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> Use star -x -force-hole
Sorry, my mistake! (-force-hole works for extraction but doesn't work for
archive creation in star, I was getting mixed up.)
Mark