Re: tar with switches leads to stack dump

2005-12-22 Thread Joe Smith
I still don't see why upstream refuses to update a compressed archive, but at least it didn't abort. Gnu tar will not allow the use of '-r or -u' when a tar file is given on stdin. I assume that compressed archives work using tar as a filter, instead of using potentially huge temporary

tar with switches leads to stack dump

2005-12-21 Thread fergus
I'm trying to append several new files to an existing zipped .tar.gz and maintain the zipped format. I find that tar -vrzf exist.tar.gz *.new leads to an Aborted (core dumped) message. More than likely my syntax is faulty, but maybe not. (Creating a .tar.gz from scratch using tar

Re: tar with switches leads to stack dump

2005-12-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 21 08:28, fergus wrote: I'm trying to append several new files to an existing zipped .tar.gz and maintain the zipped format. I find that tar -vrzf exist.tar.gz *.new leads to an Aborted (core dumped) message. More than likely my syntax is faulty, but maybe not. (Creating

Re: tar with switches leads to stack dump

2005-12-21 Thread Chris Taylor
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 21 08:28, fergus wrote: I'm trying to append several new files to an existing zipped .tar.gz and maintain the zipped format. I find that tar -vrzf exist.tar.gz *.new leads to an Aborted (core dumped) message. More than likely my syntax is faulty, but maybe

Re: tar with switches leads to stack dump

2005-12-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to fergus on 12/21/2005 1:28 AM: I'm trying to append several new files to an existing zipped .tar.gz and maintain the zipped format. I find that tar -vrzf exist.tar.gz *.new leads to an Aborted (core dumped) message.