On Friday 24 March 2006 05:53, "Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] How to tar?': > -----Original Message----- > From: Benno Schulenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Michael Kintzios wrote: > > > what I think is needed > > > here is untarring of the archive, while untarred data is > > > dynamically deleted immediately after untarred to make space for > > > more data to be untarred . . . do I make sense? > > > > Yes, but GNU tar cannot do that, it can only do one command at a > > time, either --extract or --delete or ... > > Yes, that's why I was hoping that some clever bash-ery may be able to > pipe the lot together.
Perhaps: tar xvf gentoo_usr.tar | while read file; do tar --delete f gentoo_usr.tar "$file"; done That might just screw up your tar file and/or extract junk; I didn't test it at all. -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- [email protected] mailing list
