On Wed, 30 May 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: >Hi list > >Now that I can transfer my downloaded .debs in a .tar file, I wonder if >I could create this .tar file saving disk space, e.g. in the following >way > ><pseudo-code> >create a tar file (touch packages.tar?)
unnecessary, and in fact will break the script... >for *.deb in this directory foreach foo (./*.deb) > 1.) add it to the tar file tar -u $foo -f packages.tar > 2.) rm this .deb rm $foo >end end ></pseudo-code> > >Is this possible for (non-GNU)-tar? I think that I made it basic enough to be portable... >How would this look for the csh? That's what I was writing it for (actually, tcsh, but it should be backwards compatible...) >Even better: Could this be included in the wget-script? ?! you have a script already that you want to add this stuff to? That'd be easier by far, because you'd only have to select once and not select, then select on *.deb. >thanks > >joerg > -- There is an old saying that if a million monkeys typed on a million keyboards for a million years, eventually all the works of Shakespeare would be produced. Now, thanks to Usenet, we know this is not true. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!