terry white wrote:
... ciao:
: on "10-20-2006" "Mauricio Silveira" writ:
: I'm wondering if there's any way to get tar to stop immediately after
: the extraction of a file on compressed tar files. eg: I pack a big tgz
'man tar' offers:
-T, --files-from F
get names to extract or create from file F
: when I run "tar xf file.tgz --occurrence index.txt"
HOWEVER , i'm using a gnu flavour 'tar', which does "not" list
'--occurrence' as an option, so, the suggestion above may not apply ..
I know 1.13 doesn't have this option (at least on command line help).
I did some research on the source code for tar 1.15.1 and found a place
to insert a simple exit() when using "--occurrence filename" to force
tar to quit on a "match".
I think this is the way tar should behave... compressed or non
compressed files, tar actions behavior should be the same.
I think I should send tar this issue as a bug... as far as tar waits for
its child "compress program" pipe to end.
Attached file "tar-1.15.1-compressed-archive-quit-on-ocurrence.diff"
(such a long name huh?).
Thanks,
Mauricio
--- list.c.org 2006-10-20 15:09:17.000000000 -0200
+++ list.c 2006-10-20 15:07:51.000000000 -0200
@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@
}
while (!all_names_found (¤t_stat_info));
+ exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
close_archive ();
names_notfound (); /* print names not found */
}
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