Pavel Raiskup <prais...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> what are the reasons to not take member name argument './file' and 'file'
> equivalently? So far I found only one point in documentation that it is
> essential because tar preserves filenames (2.7. How to List Archives).
Are you asking this because of a possible file name length reduction?
Star strips off ./ before archiving files since 28 years, this is longer than
gtar exists and I did not get any complaint about that fact since than.
Jörg
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