Hello all, I believe there may be a bug with the GNU tar version 1.16 "--occurrence" option: it keeps scanning to the end of the tape even after the first occurrence of a file is found. I am using it on Slackware 10.2.
Here is an example. I have a tape with about 13GB of data, and I want to extract a file near the beginning: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar --extract -vv --checkpoint=.1000 --occurrence=1 home/userID/Notes V--------- 0/0 0 2007-02-12 23:45 February--Volume Header-- Reading `February' ....-rw-r--r-- user/users 340 1998-12-08 14:37 home/userID/Notes ............................................................................ ............................................................................ .. (and the "dots", indicating that gnu tar is still reading the tape, just keep on going...) I tried it without the "--checkpoint" option, but the scanning to the end of the archive continued. I also tried just plain "--occurrence" (i.e., without the "=1"), specifying "--file=/dev/st0" (my tape drive, but that is already in my $TAPE variable), changing "--extract" to "-x" or "--get", etc., all to no avail. To test if the "--occurrence" option was at all working, I tried it with "--occurrence=2" to get the second copy of my file. That worked to the extent that the first copy was indeed skipped over. I didn't have a second copy in the archive, however, so I don't know if the scanning would have stopped after the second copy was found. Thanks, Gus Larsson
