Thanks Sergey!
On Wed 11/29/17 11:26 +0200 Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > $ echo ~/.config/ | tar -cvf /dev/null -T - --no-recursion 2>&1 |head -4
>
> The '--no-recursion' option modifies the behavior of options and
> arguments that follow it. The way you use it it has no effect. The
> correct way:
>
> $ echo ~/.config/ | tar -cvf /dev/null --no-recursion -T - 2>&1 |head -4
>
> For details, please see the GNU tar manual, subsection 3.4.4
> "Position-Sensitive Options".
Thanks for the reference.
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Based on what you say, appears this section of the tar texinfo manual
is incorrect, since "--no-recursion" has nothing following it:
6.9 Descending into Directories
--snip
Specifying '--no-recursion' is a way to tell 'tar' to grab only the
directory
entries given to it, adding no new files on its own. To summarize, if
you use 'find' to create a list of files to be stored in an archive, use
it as follows:
$ find DIR TESTS | \
tar -cf ARCHIVE -T - --no-recursion
--
regards,
Tom
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Yes it works!:
$ echo ~/.config/ | tar -cvf /dev/null --no-recursion -T -
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
/a/myself/.config/
$
