Sergey, You ran into the problem mentionned by Erik. Make sure the content of the file baz is:
``` foo\055bar ``` Running the commands like a script like you did puts two backslashes. Nicolas On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Sergey Poznyakoff <g...@gnu.org.ua> wrote: > 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 >
