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Re: Bug/unpleasant Feature in tar -X - Option
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: Bug/unpleasant Feature in tar -X - Option |
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Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:14:36 -0400 |
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Andreas Mattheiss <address@hidden> wrote:
> I happened to notice (the hard way) that tar version 1.13.17 does
> not honour an EXCLUDE - pattern specified as an entry in a file
> which is made known to tar with -X when there are trailing spaces in
> the line in question. I.e., when specifying an EXCLUDE - pattern in
> a file there must not be any trailing spaces at all.
AIUI, the spaces are considered part of the file name. The line isn't
ignored; you're just naming a different file. Maybe it would be
useful to have an option to display warnings when excluded file names
do not exist.
paul