On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 12:41 PM Go Canes <letsgonhlcanes0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 2:24 PM Patrick Dupre <pdupre@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > To create a tar file, I used to create a list and to make
> > tar -cvzf arch.tgz $list
> >
> > However, if there are file names with a space, this space is
> > interpreted as file name separator.
> >
> > How can I fix this,
> > either when I tar, or when I create the list?
>
> Instead of putting the filenames in a variable, put them in a file
> (one filename per line) and tell tar to get the filenames from the
> file with "--verbatim-files-from" and "-T, --files-from=FILE".
>
> I.e., put filenames in /tmp/list-for-tar, and then "tar -cvzf arch.tgz
> --verbatim-files-from -T /tmp/list-for-tar". See if that works for
> you.
If you can make your list with find, you can also do something like this:
find [top directory] [find criteria here] -exec tar -cvzf arch.tgz {} +
Or, if you can generate the list with null characters instead of
spaces as the filename separators, you could do something like this:
[generate the list with nulls] | xargs -0 tar -cvzf arch.tgz
--
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/
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