Re: [Bug-tar] Workaround for extracting archives sparsely

[Joerg Schilling]

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> 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.
> >
> > Star does this since 1990.
> >
> > 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.)

Well, if you like to get a specific feature, you could send a mail to the star
mailinglist:
        https://developer.berlios.de/mail/?group_id=9

Jörg

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