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- In article <4nr71a$67c@service.polymtl.ca> coyote@step.polymtl.ca () writes:
- < In article <199605200625.BAA01207@raven.ots.utexas.edu>, Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
- < >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.
- <
- < Unfortunately, adding --null to my tar command line did not seem to make
- < any kind of difference (current command line: tar --null -cvpzf ...):
- < tar still complains about Long Links.. could it be that GNU tar has a
- < limitation on the number of characters in the names of the files handed
- < to it?...
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- Last time I looked, tar (and I believe also gnu tar) has a default
- limit of 100 characters to pathnames. As you have discovered, this
- often creates problems when backing up mac disks since the macintosh
- spirit encourages deeply nested folders and *long* file names such as
- "My favorite high school term paper from 9'th grade". (Allowing spaces
- encourages multi-word titles).
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- Jeff
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