On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:44:28 -0500 (EST), bruno wrote: > Ken Teague wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:39 AM, bruno <bruno.deb...@cyberoso.com> wrote: >> >>> Why not simply use the t option for content listing : >>> >>> tar tvf * --exclude-from $EXCLUDES >>> >> >> He's already creating the archive with -v. Why process the archive a >> 2nd time just to get a listing when it comes from stdout the 1st time? >> >> >> > because it's a simplier way to get the list into a variable > because the script gets much clearer > because it is not safe to rely on stderr since it is supposed to display > errors, which it might do as well > because he would get the list of the files that have really been > compressed, not just the processed ones > because the overhead may not be worth the complication of trying to do > both things at the same time > because he might as well never use the v option (it's not useful in my > proposition either, and it would even reduce the overhead) > > because it is another way to do it and nobody had proposed it before
This is off topic from the OP's question, but one of the things that I miss in the Linux environment that I used to use a lot in the CMS environment is CMS Pipelines. The shell supports pipelines, but they are *single-stream* pipelines. CMS pipelines supports *multi-stream* pipelines. That one feature alone makes CMS Pipelines so much more powerful than shell pipelines. I wish the shell supported multi-stream pipelines. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org