wietse@wzv.win.tue.nl (Wietse Venema) (01/22/91)
goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes: >Ever get a tar file stuffed with source files having 15+char >filenames, and find that you have to go through the entire >archive, renaming and grepping through source files to get >things to work? > >Try this. Another program that deals with the problem is pax, posted to comp.sources.unix (Volume 17, Issue 74) from Mark H. Colburn <mark@jhereg.jhereg.mn.org>. Pax is a (us)tar/cpio hybrid with several extensions to both (such as multi-volume backups). From the man page: -i Interactively rename files ... -s replstr File names are modified according to the substitu- tion expression using the syntax of ed(1) as shown: -s /old/new/[gp] Any non null character may be used as a delimiter (a / is used here as an example). Multiple -s expressions may be specified ...