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- >>>>> "V" == Vincent S Cojot <coyote@step.polymtl.ca> writes:
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- V> I'd like to ask a small question about executor under Linux: I love
- V> executor and I have installed on an ext2fs partition. However, the
- V> usual backup programs one would use under Linux complain about that
- V> partition (Mac programs tend to put spaces and other strange
- V> characters in file names). GNU tar complains about Long links and
- V> skips files and cpio simply doesn't like some file names and skips
- V> some files too.
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- Look at the --null option to GNU tar (find has a complementary
- -print0). Basically what you want is to pass tar a list of null
- terminated (not whitespace terminated) files. That way the files can
- have spaces, weird characters, etc.
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- Rob
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