On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:15:28PM +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > This is intended behavior: instead of silently ignoring the error, > tar reports it.
Also try:
% touch a{0000..9999} && tar cf X.tar a* && tar tf X.tar | head -n 1
a0000
tar: write error
SIGPIPE is not an error.
