Re: --sequential-read not sequential???

Graham Cobb <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.dar.support
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> You can do exactly what you want by mean of dar_form with dar:
> 
> dar_xform -E 'rm "%p/%b."*".%e"' \
>  	  -E "echo Fetching $dir/%b.%n.%e.gpg..." \
>  	  -E "gpg -d -q -o '%p/%b.%n.%e' --batch  '$dir/%b.%n.%e.gpg'" \
> 	  /var/tmp/$archive - | dar -t - --sequential-read

This doesn't work. It seems that dar_xform does not really support -E
(despite being documented in the man page). As a simple test:

dar_xform -E 'echo hello' a-file-which-does-not-exist -

Should output "hello" before complaining about the missing file, but it
does not.
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