Re: [Bug-tar] avoid spurious test failure (working --listed), #24

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Sergey,

> Ah, forgotten to tell: on some systems sort produces spurious verbose
> diagnostics on stderr (we have some reports on the list)

Strange.  Could that be because the user's locale means the bytes in the
files can't be interpreted?  Locales do funny things to sort anyway so I
often find

    LC_ALL=C sort err >&2; rm -f err

to help.

Cheers,


Ralph.