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· Shawn Haggett <podge@××××××××.com>: |
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> Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> 060821 Shaochun Wang wrote: |
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>>> Does anyone know the function of .keep file in a directory? |
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>> It prevents the dir from being deleted by a script, |
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>> eg esp during a package update. |
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> I believe it is to do with how tar handles directories. If there are no |
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> files in a dir, tar won't include the dir in the archive. |
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Nope, tar doesn't have anything to do with this. |
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alexander@knospe:~/tmp/tartest$ mkdir emptydir |
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alexander@knospe:~/tmp/tartest$ tar cfv test.tar emptydir |
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emptydir/ |
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alexander@knospe:~/tmp/tartest$ ls -la emptydir/ |
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insgesamt 0 |
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drwxr-xr-x 2 alexander alexander 1 2006-08-21 13:24 . |
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drwxr-xr-x 3 alexander alexander 16 2006-08-21 13:24 .. |
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alexander@knospe:~/tmp/tartest$ rm -r emptydir |
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alexander@knospe:~/tmp/tartest$ ls -la emptydir |
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ls: emptydir: No such file or directory |
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alexander@knospe:~/tmp/tartest$ tar xvf test.tar |
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emptydir/ |
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alexander@knospe:~/tmp/tartest$ ls -la emptydir |
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insgesamt 0 |
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drwxr-xr-x 2 alexander alexander 1 2006-08-21 13:24 . |
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drwxr-xr-x 3 alexander alexander 24 2006-08-21 13:25 .. |
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Alexander Skwar |
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Das Problem ist der Parser. Der ist nicht fuzzy genug. |
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-- Klaus Knopper |
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