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bug #62635: Add possibility to tar stdin and specify filename by args

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Wed 15 Jun 2022 02:14:20 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Postponed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  gray
Open/Closed:  Open
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Sat 11 Feb 2023 01:08:19 PM UTC, comment #1: 

For archiving a file, tar need to know its size beforehand.  It is impossible when reading input from the stdin.

An option would be to write a placeholder header, pull in the content of stdin up to EOF, seek back to the header location, update it and seek back to the end of archive.  This approach would work if the archive is seekable.

However, it will require a considerable reworking of the tar code, and I'm not sure of all the consequences it will entail.

For the moment, I'm marking this as postponed.  Feel free to post here your suggestions and thoughts.

Sergey Poznyakoff <gray>
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Wed 15 Jun 2022 02:14:20 PM UTC, original submission:  

So for now we need to do like this:
```
ifconfig > ifconfig.log
journalctl -b > journal.log
tar -cf support.tar ifconfig.log journal.log
rm -f ifconfig.log journal.log
```

What would be interesting is like this:
```
ifconfig | tar -cf --name ifconfig.log support.tar -
tar -rvf test..tar one_more_file.txt
journalctl -b | tar -rf --name journalctl.log support.tar -
```

1. Support read content from stdin
2. New argument --name to specify filename for it

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