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Re: Bug in tar?



Mark Eichin writes:
> 
> not a bug in tar (in fact, your test pretty much eliminates that
> possibility..) However: does your "cd" alias print anything?  Take a
> look at 
> 	(cd /lib/modules; tar -cf - 2.0.27) | od -a | head
> and see if it has anything before the / l i b / m o d u l e s  you
> should see as the beginning of a tar file...

Yes, that's it. Silly me, I was experimenting with a modified cd command
that changes the titel bar of my xterm. Argh!

Thanks.

Michael

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