GNU Tar folks: It appears that if you use the "z" or "j" option to tar in order to gzip or bzip2, and send the output to stdout, tar tacks on several trailing null characters.
I.e.: tar zcf - somedir/ > /tmp/foo.tar.gz will not result in the same thing as: tar zcf /tmp/foo.tar.gz somedir/ The former will have several extra null characters at the end. gzip will silently ignore them, while bzip2 will complain about them. Either way, I suspect they shouldn't be there. -- Phil Dibowitz Systems Architect and Administrator Enterprise Infrastructure / ISD / USC UCC 174 - 213-821-5427
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