Re: [Dump-devel] filenames from file for restore

[Stelian P. <st...@ca...>]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I wrote a small script to assist my Mac users to recover files from
> dumps.  However, they are going wild when giving names to files (all 
> kind of funny stuff).  I've found this to be almost impossible to handle
> with a shell script.  So, here's a small update to restore(8) which
> extends its functionality so that a list of files to be extracted/listed
> comes from a named file (like '-T' option for gnutar).  I've chosen '-X'
> option for this.  

Thanks for your patch, I found it very useful. It has been included
in the CVS and will be part of the next release.

> stdin is not supported because I was not sure how to
> handle the following case
> 
> # restore -tf - -X -

I agree. This should not be very important though.

Stelian.
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