Hello. I have problem that I described on:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18609377/linux-tar-t-does-not-work-on-the-fly
Option -T make some undescribed buffering. When file list to archive is
given from
stdin or named pipe file, it is not interactive. Tar makes buffering.
For example scripts with unnamed pipe
|while read x; do echo $x; done|\
tar cvf tar.tar -T -
|
and second with named pipe:
|mkfifo named_pipe
tar cvf tar.tar -T named_pipe
while read x; do echo $x; done >named_pipe
|
tar begins job only when I press ^D for terminal EOF mark.
What I want to do? repack archive with plenty gzipped file, to one tar
file packed with gz. But I do not have much hdd space.
"while" part of above script I want replace by unpacking files step by
step and waiting when tar removes them using tar option --remove-files .
Unfortunately tar makes buffering and stop, while takes end of file
list. Then my job is impossible.
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Grzegorz Szyszlo.
