On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:42:45 -0500 (EST), Javier Barroso wrote: >> In this case output goes to stderr, so: >> >> tar -zcvf - * --exclude-from $EXCLUDES 2> /tmp/data$$ | openssl ... > > Is that something you just have to find out by trial and error? > I checked the man page for tar, and there's nothing in there about > the -v output being written to stderr. I'll take your word for it, > but in the general case, it's hard to tell. Since stdout and > stderr both default to the terminal, and since the doc doesn't > say, how else would you know other than by trial and error? If you are using stdout as tar output, including filenames there will corrupt that output, so it is logical that in this case filenames goes to stderr.
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