bitbug@lonewolf.sun.com (James Buster) (07/25/89)
In GNU Tar 1.07, I have used the following command line: find <dir> -print | sort | tar -c -f <dir>.tar -T - The error is that tar does not archive files in the order it reads file names when using -T, i.e., a tar -tf <dir>.tar should reveal that the file names are sorted, but they aren't. It is desirable for tar to archive files in the order tar reads their names, since having file names in sorted (whatever your sort criteria are) order is nice. -- -------------------------------------------- James Buster Mad Hacker Extraordinaire bitbug@lonewolf.sun.com sun.com!lonewolf!bitbug --------------------------------------------