Use tar to append?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 23:51:01 UTC 2007
Cameron Simpson wrote:
> I have also thought of a much simpler way to solve your problem.
>
> The trailer record is the source of all our pain. Write a small perl or
> python or C program that seeks to the end of stdout minus the length of
> the trailer record then execs a "tar cf - ..." for you. Thus:
It's been ages since I looked at the tar source but I could have sworn
it tried to do that itself if it could seek on the media.
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Les Mikesell
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