Hi, I'm doing some experimenting with Tarsnap's -s option. This seems really useful for avoiding shooting yourself in the head.
Of course, I don't want to do something easy. I want to substitute a multi-part path, which means I have to escape /. # tarsnap -xf etctest -s /^etc/var\/dr\/etc/p tarsnap: Invalid replacement flag d How can I escape characters in -s? Or am I missing something? Context: Disaster recovery. If I've installed a brand new VM, I don't want to restore the old VM's /etc over the top of the new one. It's probably slightly different. I want to extract the whole of /etc so it's handy, but have it out of the way. Yes, I could use -C. But this seems like it *should* be perfectly doable. I could even do this during archive creation, so that I don't forget during an emergency restore... Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas - [email protected], Twitter @mwlauthor http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/, http://blather.MichaelWLucas.com/
