Adding remove file option to BSD tar?

[Roman Kurakin]

Steven Hartland:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Anderson" 
> <anderson at centtech.com>
>
>> Some people on this list might argue that you could do this another 
>> way, something like piping a tar extract to another tar create that 
>> excludes that file.
>
>
> Sure that can be done but its a PITA and majorly slow
> so a none option IMO.

In case one concerned by the space problem there is now other way to
do it failsafe.
In case it is gziped it need to be extracted first in any case.

rik

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