Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:8801 comp.unix.wizards:10453 Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!scs!spl1!ddsw1!bigtex!james From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: tar frustration (was Re: relative pathname question!) Message-ID: <6068@bigtex.uucp> Date: 13 Aug 88 07:55:33 GMT Article-I.D.: bigtex.6068 References: <1670003@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <5762@super.upenn.edu> <1414@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> <2858@ttrdc.UUCP> Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen) Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX Lines: 15 In article <2858@ttrdc.UUCP>, levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) wrote: > All this points up a "feature" of tar which I find frustrating: if I want > tar to tape-archive a large number of files randomly scattered all over the > file system (such as for an incremental backup) I'm SOL because tar wants > to be told either a directory to completely search or file names to archive, > via the argument list. Am I the only one to use John Gilmore's tar that was posted a while back? It solves all of the problems I've so far (including this one - his can take files from stdin). It does need some work to get it working under SysV, but definitely worthwhile. -- James R. Van Artsdalen ...!uunet!utastro!bigtex!james "Live Free or Die" Home: 512-346-2444 Work: 328-0282; 110 Wild Basin Rd. Ste #230, Austin TX 78746