No. I do not have a Solaris 10 document anywhere that supports it. I found
the trick long ago in "Unix Shell Programming", by Setphen G. Kochan and
Patrick H. Wood, page 266 (Copyright 1985). I have been using it for the last
four years in this cleanup. You can type:
echo "$IFS" | od -b
To see it. I found it on Solaris 10 and it works. But not with gtar.
As a matter of fact, I went ahead and used the original tar command back in
place and it worked perfectly last night. I retried the command with the
--no-unquote argument this morning, and it did not work.
I appreciate the FABULOUS work you and others have done to create a GREAT
product like gtar. I wish I had the knowledge to help, but I am a scripter,
not a programmer. The book I reference was my very first Unix tome and I used
it to learn on a AT&T B100, long, long ago.
Thank You, Tim!
Terry
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Kientzle [mailto:t...@kientzle.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 9:13 AM
To: Terry Moore
Cc: bug-tar@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] Filenames with spaces not handled properly
On Jan 25, 2011, at 5:57 PM, Terry Moore wrote:
> I routinely clean up old files after a time. Some of these files have spaces
> in the file name. I have a Solaris 10 server. With tar, I used to have my
> ksh script capture and change the IFS ksh variable. I save it to OIFS, set
> it to just a newline character, and then do the tar using an include file
> containing the list of files I want to put on the tape. When the tar is
> done, I put the IFS back the way it was from OIFS.
> This has worked quite well in the past,...
Is this behavior of Solaris 10 tar documented somewhere?
I looked at the online Solaris 10 documentation, but can't
find any reference to IFS being obeyed by Solaris 10 tar:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19253-01/816-5165/6mbb0m9td/index.html
Tim
