Re: [Bug-tar] tar -c <file> -f <file.tar> behavior change

[Paul Eggert]

Andrew Haninger <address@hidden> writes:

> It seems that there has been a behavior change between tar 1.14 and
> 1.15. With versions previous to 1.14, I have always been able to
> create a tar file by using the command "tar -c <file or directory to
> be tarred> -f <tar file of file or directory> and a tar file is
> produced. With versions 1.15 and 1.15.1, garbage is printed to STDOUT,
> rather than the file given with -f.

Sorry, I didn't quite get your bug report.  Can you give a specific
example?  I just tried this:

touch foo.c
tar -c foo.c -f foo.tar
tar -tvf foo.tar

and it worked for me with tar 1.15.1: it created foo.tar with contents
foo.c, and that sounds like it's what you wanted.  Here's the output I
got from the last command:

-rw-r--r-- eggert/eggert     0 2005-07-17 00:39:24 foo.c