David Barri wrote: > Sure. Here's a diff between two tars I created using tar -cp -T filelist > >> > diff -u <(xxd a.tar) <(xxd b.tar)
I'm afraid that's not enough information for me to reproduce the problem, nor do I get the significance of those differences. Here's how I tried (and failed) to reproduce the problem: $ echo foo >foo $ tar -cf tar1 foo $ tar -cf tar2 foo $ cmp tar1 tar2 $
