[Bug-tar] New --quoting-style needed

[Eric Hopper]

There are times when it would be very nice to be able to pull filenames
out of GNU Tar in a way that was friendly to use with xargs even for
filenames that had newlines or other bizarre characters in their names.

GNU Tar, of course, already has a way to do this when feeding it a list
of filenames, but not when you're getting a list of the filenames in the
archive.  The most logical place for this seems like the quoting-style
option.  All that would be needed is for 'null' (for '\0' separated raw
strings) be a valid choice for that option.

Thanks,
-- 
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
 safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjanmin Franklin
-- Eric Hopper (http://www.omnifarious.org/~hopper) --

pgpvhBtZzmGTo.pgp
Description: PGP signature