>From: "Ian C. Blenke" <ian@blenke.com>
>Date: 2007/04/30 Mon PM 05:31:40 CDT
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] creating tar archive of filenames containing spaces
>Very true. You can also use "--null" to accept null
>terminated names, ie:
>
> find . -print0 | tar cf ../test.tar -T - --null
>
>Which, like find -print0 and xargs -0, allows tar to
>accept a null terminated list of filenames.
Nifty.
>Not that I think you need --null there, as each
>filename is already on a separate line, right?
If you have mostly sane filenames, right, you don't need them separated by \0. NL should do it.
>Then again, you can theoretically have newlines in a
>filename... (hooray sentinel values!)
>>>Another option is to temporarily redefine IFS.
>>
>>"/" can't occur in filenames.
>
>Er? You referring to "../test.tar"? That means
>"test.tar in the parent directory"
You can't have files named "foo\0bar" or "foo/bar".
Having a _path_ foo/bar is just fine.
>If you're referring to absolute vs relative filenames
>inside a tar file, that's a different issue.
Oh, I don't know about tar's rules. Presumably they're similar to Linux's.
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