On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 06:53 +0100, Helmut Waitzmann wrote:
> As you can see, one cannot distinguish the two symlinks 'file ->' and
> 'file'.  Sorry.  tar -tvf is broken by design.

Come on!  All tar needs is a --quoting-style option like ls to quote the
file names properly, and tar -tvf output will be unambiguous.
-- 
Matt McCutchen, ``hashproduct''
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://hashproduct.metaesthetics.net/



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