Re: Bug/unpleasant Feature in tar -X - Option

[Gerhard Poul]

> 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.

I'll make a patch for this and post it to you... because
that sounds interesting... :)

I'll get back to you in a few days. (I hope I have enough time...)

bye.