empty archive

David Collier from_busybox_maillist at dexdyne.com
Wed Feb 2 17:11:00 UTC 2011


groan.

Forget it.

I hadn't noticed I don't have the ability to append to an archive.

I'll go the long way round then

zzzzzzz

D





In article <memo.20110202170803.13524K at postmaster+dexdyne.com.cix.co.uk>,
from_busybox_maillist at dexdyne.com (David Collier) wrote:

> *From:* "David Collier" <from_busybox_maillist at dexdyne.com>
> *To:* busybox at busybox.net
> *Date:* Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:08 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
> 
> Is there any way to strong-arm busybox's tar into creating an empty
> archive? ( I need to add to it with xargs )
> 
> I really need to add files into an initially empty archive ( no I 
> don't
> want to start with a dummy file. )
> 
> busybox refuses to play nicely with
> 
> tar -cf test -T /dev/null
> or
> tar -cf test /dev/null
> 
> so is there any other way to get there?
> 
> TVM
> 
> D
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