Re: order of files

[Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS]

Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <address@hidden>:

> Note that it is rather hard to get a canonical ordering in a portable
> way without modifying tar as you can't add a directory to an archive
> without adding the files it contains. If this were possible, then I
> could get a canonical ordering with something like:
> 
> find foo-1.2.3 | sort |
>   ( while read x ; do tar --dir-only -rf foo-1.2.3.tar "$x" ; done )
> 
> (assuming no file name contains a '\n'!)

I see the latest version of tar does in fact have a --no-recursion
option.

Edmund