Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 07:44:13 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar Message-ID: <366F7BCD.FFE8916@uk.radan.com> References: <199812100130.TAA39048@n4hhe.ampr.org>
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David Kelly wrote: > > Mark Ovens writes: > > > > You can't use wildcards in the list of files to extract > > > > (etc/mtree/BSD*) > > > > > > Sure you can. You just have to escape them from the shell as tar > > > doesn't get to see the asterix as its used above. Example: > > > > > > > I stand corrected. Traditionally tar can't handle wildcards when > > extracting, at least all the *nix I've used (mainly SunOS) can't. GNU > > tar has obviously addressed this. > > That's correct too. I should have pointed it out when I demonstrated > FreeBSD's GNU tar would parse regex expressions. GNU tar's man page > doesn't say much about it, I had to experiment to find that it worked. > > pax(1) goes to length discussing "patterns" so presumably it too will > allow some form of wildcard matching from the command line. While pax > is supposed to be a POSIX utility I haven't found SGI's, Sun's, and > FreeBSD's to be as similar as tar between the same hosts. Heaven forbid > but I found mention of pax in NT documentation. Found out enough to > know its crippled so much that it can't talk to tape drives. What a sad > joke. > Is NT's pax part of the POSIX compilant stuff in the NT Resource Kit? This kit includes a version of ln. Now given that NT doesn't have such things as symlinks what do you think NT's ln does? It copies the file!!!! NT == No Thanks > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net > ===================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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