On Friday, January 17, 2014 11:21:34 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Pavel Raiskup <prais...@redhat.com> wrote: > > 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?
Initially, I was asking to reveal reasons why e.g.: `tar -xf ARCHIVE ./file` != `tar -xf ARCHIVE file` > Star strips off ./ before archiving files I missed that, thanks. But then you are not able to extract with './'-beginning member which could be considered even worse (inconsistent). Still, concrete tar implementation is OT for this thread (bsdtar has completely opposite behavior, e.g.). I would like to see real reasons why to take members (and thus maybe store file-names) this or that way.
