groan. Forget it.
I hadn't noticed I don't have the ability to append to an archive. I'll go the long way round then zzzzzzz D In article <memo.20110202170803.13524K@postmaster+dexdyne.com.cix.co.uk>, [email protected] (David Collier) wrote: > *From:* "David Collier" <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Date:* Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:08 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) > > Is there any way to strong-arm busybox's tar into creating an empty > archive? ( I need to add to it with xargs ) > > I really need to add files into an initially empty archive ( no I > don't > want to start with a dummy file. ) > > busybox refuses to play nicely with > > tar -cf test -T /dev/null > or > tar -cf test /dev/null > > so is there any other way to get there? > > TVM > > D > _______________________________________________ > busybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox > _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
