Thursday, May 26, 2022

Re: bsdtar -O | --to-stdout

On 2022-05-26, Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net> wrote:

>> i'm looking for a way to reproduce -O flag in bsdtar/gtar using tar
>> or pax but i didn't find one.
>
> Sounds like you are trying to send tar output (or input) to
> stdin/stdout.

No, to extract a file to stdout.
OpenBSD's tar(1) or pax(1) can't do this. I use bsdtar or gtar
when I need this.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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