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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