Hi, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Currently neither GNU tar nor star can do that, but the FreeBSD version >> of tar can. It's in the bsdtar package in Debian-based Linux distributions. > > Star does this since 1990. > > Use star -x -force-hole
Sorry, my mistake! (-force-hole works for extraction but doesn't work for archive creation in star, I was getting mixed up.) Mark
