Hi, tar 1.29 seems to have broken the use of the --exclude-from option when used in the TAR_OPTIONS environment variable.
Here's a simple example. This works: $ touch foo $ TAR_OPTIONS= tar cf foo.tar foo $ But this doesn't: $ touch foo excludes $ TAR_OPTIONS="--exclude-from=excludes" tar cf foo.tar foo tar: : No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now $ This worked before, so something must have changed in tar 1.29. Thanks, Jan -- -[ OpenPGP key ID: 00A0FD5F ]- A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that." -- Douglas Adams
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