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Re: [Bug-tar] Strange Extra Line in 1.14 and 1.15.1's -tvf Output.


From: Sergey Poznyakoff
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] Strange Extra Line in 1.14 and 1.15.1's -tvf Output.
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:00:53 +0300

Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:

> An extra line of output, including some NUL bytes, appears in the output
> of `tar -tvf'.

When used with -g or -G, -t option historically implies displaying some
internal data from GNU tar headers. That is exactly extra lines you are
complaining about. In my opinion it should be displayed only when -v (or
even -vv is given), I will fix this in the next release.

Regards,
Sergey




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