Re: [Bug-tar] possible bug creating tar files with verbose option

[Paul Eggert]

Jay Eckles <address@hidden> writes:

> If I create a tar file of a directory's contents using
> the following command:
> tar -cvf file.tar directory/*
> I'll get a tar file called file.tar and it will
> contain the contents of directory.  However, the first
> file in directory (as displayed by ls) will be
> corrupted.

I don't observe any problem with tar 1.15.1

$ mkdir directory
$ touch directory/1
$ touch directory/2
$ tar -cvf file.tar directory/*
directory/1
directory/2
$ tar tvf file.tar
-rw-r--r-- eggert/eggert     0 2005-03-29 02:57:06 directory/1
-rw-r--r-- eggert/eggert     0 2005-03-29 02:57:10 directory/2