Hi Nicolas, > The `--files-from` (`-T`) option does not properly work in 1.27 but was > properly working in 1.26. It fails in the presence of escaped characters as > described in the following code snippet: > > ``` > mkdir test > cd test > echo something > foo-bar > echo 'foo\\055bar' > baz > tar -cf qux.tar -T baz > ```
I get the same behavior with both 1.26 and 1.27: gray@ulysses:~/tmp$ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.26 Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. gray@ulysses:~/tmp$ sh f.sh tar: foo\\055bar: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors Regards, Sergey
