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On Friday 24 March 2006 05:53, "Michael Kintzios" |
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<michaelkintzios@××××××××.uk> wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] How to tar?': |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Benno Schulenberg [mailto:benno.schulenberg@×××××.com] |
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> > Michael Kintzios wrote: |
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> > > what I think is needed |
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> > > here is untarring of the archive, while untarred data is |
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> > > dynamically deleted immediately after untarred to make space for |
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> > > more data to be untarred . . . do I make sense? |
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> > |
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> > Yes, but GNU tar cannot do that, it can only do one command at a |
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> > time, either --extract or --delete or ... |
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> Yes, that's why I was hoping that some clever bash-ery may be able to |
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> pipe the lot together. |
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Perhaps: |
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tar xvf gentoo_usr.tar | while read file; do tar --delete f gentoo_usr.tar |
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"$file"; done |
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That might just screw up your tar file and/or extract junk; I didn't test |
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it at all. |
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"If there's one thing we've established over the years, |
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it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest |
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clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." |
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-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh |
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