Package: tar
Version: 1.19-1
Severity: wishlist
I use tar to make backup copies of directories before moving partitions
around
and sometimes it will take a long time to copy large files that I realize
(while watching the
operation) I don't necessarily need the large file. For instance now I am
copying 73 gigs
of mp3's and movies, and it would be nice to have a signal handler in tar to
skip to the next
file, perhaps something like "window change":
kill SIGWINCH $(pidof tarjob)
This functionality is in the shoutcast transcoder to enable me to skip to the
next song.
The handler would only work for uncompressed tar files.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bashs
Versions of packages tar depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
tar recommends no packages.
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