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Thanks, I am aware of tricks like that, but it gets tiring really fast, so I don't use that in practice. Why can't they just add another flag to tar to call a p

• deoxxa 11y ago
  > Why can't they just add another flag to tar [...]? You are "they" - you can add that flag. If it turns out that it works well, it'll (probably) be taken and added to whichever `tar` implementations you submit patches for.
• baruch 11y ago
  Different people will want different sorts for different needs, you can already feed tar the list of sorted files so it only takes another program to provide the specific sorted order for you. I actually do not really know why they bothered with the -z -j and such compression options when you could already pipe to a compressor of choice.
• capitalsigma 11y ago
  goodtar: #!/bin/bash find $3 type -f | rev | sort | rev | tar -cv $2 -T /dev/stdin -f $1 Now put `goodtar` in `/usr/bin`. Whenever you want to compress stuff, just say: goodtar -j output.tar mydir What's making you tired?
  • baruch 11y ago
    I just created a quick hack which is essentially at this level but I would try to improve upon it, it can be found at: https://github.com/baruch/sortedtar https://github.com/baruch/sortedtar
• capitalsigma 11y ago
  goodtar: #!/bin/bash find $3 type -f | rev | sort | rev | tar -cv $2 -T /dev/stdin -f $1 Now put `goodtar` in `/usr/bin`. Whenever you want to compress stuff, just say: goodtar -j output.tar mydir What's making you tired?