Hi, This is my first message to this list, so hi everyone and I hope that this is the right place to post. I would like to submit a feature request: to add a flag for including the contents of FIFO:s, like --dereference, but for named pipes.
The problem this would solve is tar:ing multiple large program outputs without using intermediate files, something like mkdir bck mkfifo bck/1.dump mkfifo bck/2.dump dbdump db1 > bck/1.dump & dbdump db2 > bck/2.dump & tar -c?f bck.tar bck It is currently of course possible to come up with some workarounds, but they have drawbacks and this would IMHO be a very nice addition. There are some google results with people having the same problems: http://www.unix.com/unix-advanced-expert-users/30365-tar-fifos.html , http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2021873/linux-adding-named-files-to-a-zip-archive-from-a-pipe/2022012#2022012 and http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/make-tarziprar-play-nice-with-named-pipes-593392/ Best Regards, Alexander T
