On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 2:24 PM Patrick Dupre pdupre@gmx.com wrote:
Hello,
To create a tar file, I used to create a list and to make tar -cvzf arch.tgz $list
However, if there are file names with a space, this space is interpreted as file name separator.
How can I fix this, either when I tar, or when I create the list?
Instead of putting the filenames in a variable, put them in a file (one filename per line) and tell tar to get the filenames from the file with "--verbatim-files-from" and "-T, --files-from=FILE".
I.e., put filenames in /tmp/list-for-tar, and then "tar -cvzf arch.tgz --verbatim-files-from -T /tmp/list-for-tar". See if that works for you.