On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff <czark...@gmail.com> wrote: > The diff below makes tar treat "-" in TAPE environment variable as > stdout, making it consistant with "-f" argument. Could be a sane > default for those who have no tape device.
Frankly, I think someone using TAPE=- would be *in*sane. If a program/script depends on tar writing to $TAPE (because it invokes tar without 'f' option), then it probably also writes to stdout, which will break the tar file in the suggested usage. I would *almost* rather make using tar without the -f option an error... Also, the diff has a bug: "TAPE=- tar cv" won't behave correctly. Philip Guenther
