Hi, On 22/08/2025 21:04, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
The '--verbatim-files-from' option is supposed to handle its input verbatim, hence its name. Eight years is sifficiently long time, but if my memory serves me, the commit you referred to was an answer to some bug reports which complained that 'tar -T' started to handle its input differently at some point.
Yeah, I'm not saying it was wrong to have --verbatim-files-from not unquote paths; it's just that it broke (at least) pristine-tar; and leaves tar with no unambiguous listing format.
That being said, I agree that an option like '--print0' is certainly a good idea.
Cool :) Thanks, Matthew
