terry white wrote:
> ... ciao:
>
> : on "10-20-2006" "Mauricio Silveira" writ:
> : I'm wondering if there's any way to get tar to stop immediately after
> : the extraction of a file on compressed tar files. eg: I pack a big tgz
>
>     'man tar' offers:
>
>        -T, --files-from F
>               get names to extract or create from file F
>
>
> : when I run "tar xf file.tgz --occurrence index.txt"
>
>     HOWEVER , i'm using a gnu flavour 'tar', which does "not" list
> '--occurrence' as an option, so, the suggestion above may not apply ..
I know 1.13 doesn't have this option (at least on command line help).

I did some research on the source code for tar 1.15.1 and found a place 
to insert a simple exit() when using "--occurrence filename" to force 
tar to quit on a "match".

I think this is the way tar should behave... compressed or non 
compressed files, tar actions behavior should be the same.
I think I should send tar this issue as a bug... as far as tar waits for 
its child "compress program" pipe to end.

Attached file "tar-1.15.1-compressed-archive-quit-on-ocurrence.diff" 
(such a long name huh?).


Thanks,

Mauricio