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From: | Pavel Raiskup |
Subject: | Re: [Help-tar] How do I create a tar file similar to a sample tar file? |
Date: | Sat, 08 Nov 2014 15:30:28 +0100 |
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On Saturday 08 of November 2014 15:20:16 Pavel Raiskup wrote: > > 2- My other concern is the output associated with the file command; for > > tar.file I get: POSIX tar archive (GNU) and for > > N900PVPUCNC5_N900PSPTCNC5_N900PVPUCNC5_HOME.tar.md5 I get POSIX tar > > archive. Is there a difference between the GNU version vs. whatever is > > the default format? > > [..] > How the 'file' utility is able to detect that 'GNU tar' created the > archive, I don't know, TBH. Probably there is some detectable footprint. https://github.com/file/file/blob/43137d87ebe726757ff4b91cd8aae9b8e355fc5a/src/tar.h#L73
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