Hi Antonin, Thanks for your report.
> The fact that the behavior in the command line and in the file list is > different lets me think that this is a bug and paths given in options > in the file list shouldn't be stripped of leading / characters. Yes, you are right. I have pushed the following fix: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=e5bc23efcc As an (almost) unrelated note: > cat <<EOF > manifest > -P This option cannot be used in the file list. For a list of options allowed for use in file lists, please see http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Position_002dSensitive-Options.html Best regards, Sergey
