[Toybox] "bad xform" not very helpful

[enh]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 11:33 PM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 8/15/22 15:52, enh via Toybox wrote:
> > the kernel folks are trying to use `tar --transform` and getting the
> "bad xform"
> > error that's not really helping them much. it seems like it would be
> hard to
> > list the _relevant_ sed expression(s), so perhaps just showing the
> specific
> > filename we tried that failed is a better choice?
>
> Something like error_exit("bad xform '%s' on '%s'", TT.xfsed, hname); you
> mean?
>

yeah.


> In theory I didn't intercept sed's stderr if it had a pattern parsing
> error that
> should pass through...?
>

yeah, it's not clear what the problem is here, especially because you say
you can't repro; i'll try myself and get back to you...


> Rob
>
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