Re: avoid warnings about slice vs. base name in single slice mode

Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.dar.support
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>On 31/07/2019 19:59, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>> is it possible to avoid warnings about "seems more to be a slice
>> name than a base name."
>>
>> when slice size is not defined?

On 04.08.19 11:55, Denis Corbin wrote:
>this warning shows anytime you provide a filename "archive.1.dar" when
>a archive basename "archive" is expected. It is not linked to the
>slicing scheme you want to use.

>for example do not use:
>	dar -l archive.1.dar
>but rather use
>	dar -l archive
>
>may there be one or many slices (archive.1.dar, archive.2.dar,
>archive.3.dar, ...), these are all part of the archive which basename
>is "archive"

I understand this, but when using filename completion, full names are
given.

(I don't want to play with bash and its completion functions).

What I meant was, if the warning could be avoided when no slicing scheme is
used, which is I believe most common - so we could use full filenames and
not care about slices and their extensions.


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