There are times when it would be very nice to be able to pull filenames out of GNU Tar in a way that was friendly to use with xargs even for filenames that had newlines or other bizarre characters in their names.
GNU Tar, of course, already has a way to do this when feeding it a list of filenames, but not when you're getting a list of the filenames in the archive. The most logical place for this seems like the quoting-style option. All that would be needed is for 'null' (for '\0' separated raw strings) be a valid choice for that option. Thanks, -- "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjanmin Franklin -- Eric Hopper (http://www.omnifarious.org/~hopper) --
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