[Dar-support] Re: last slice exec option?

[Denis C. <dar...@fr...>]

Daniel Johnson wrote:
> I'm trying to write a script based on dar that will backup files to
> DVDs.  The trick is that mkisofs doesn't support files big enough to
> fill up a DVD.  As a result of that I am trying to have dar make
> slices that are a third of the size needed to fill a DVD. Then have
> the script dar executes between slices determin if either there are
> three full slices to burn to a DVD, or less than three, but the the
> end of the archive before burning a disk.  Is there any way to get dar
> to tell the script it executes that the archive file it just wrote is
> the last in the set?

Yes,

if you re-read the man page about the -E option, you will find a macro 
named '%c' that is substitued by "last_slice" when the -E is invoked for 
the last slice. (this macro also exists with -F option)

Regards,
Denis.