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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2012-02-14 10:18:07 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2012-02-14 10:18:30 -0800 |
| commit | 8c75b1387a33fdbf3cbc8ba8bfa0ab1851d30894 (patch) | |
| tree | a7a0fed65b358d8c5705fd0af4c837fe48dca358 /doc | |
| parent | debc485626c0c143731b0ca229d18b48085bb2ef (diff) | |
| download | tar-8c75b1387a33fdbf3cbc8ba8bfa0ab1851d30894.tar.gz | |
doc: suggest Bash for large-fd script
* doc/tar.texi (Multi-Volume Archives): Suggest Bash for shell
script that might use >&10. Problem reported by Edward F Eaglehouse in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2012-02/msg00002.html>.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/tar.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi index a52b3229..3d82d25c 100644 --- a/doc/tar.texi +++ b/doc/tar.texi @@ -11435,7 +11435,10 @@ archive being created (as given by @option{--file} option) and @smallexample @group -#! /bin/sh +#! /bin/bash +# For this script it's advisable to use a shell, such as Bash, +# that supports a TAR_FD value greater than 9. + echo Preparing volume $TAR_VOLUME of $TAR_ARCHIVE. name=`expr $TAR_ARCHIVE : '\(.*\)-.*'` |