Hi Sergey, > Ralph Corderoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > An extra line of output, including some NUL bytes, appears in the > > output of `tar -tvf'. > > When used with -g or -G, -t option historically implies displaying > some internal data from GNU tar headers. That is exactly extra lines > you are complaining about.
Yes, I found the bit of the source after my email. > In my opinion it should be displayed only when -v (or even -vv is > given), I will fix this in the next release. It seems like debug code left in place. The characters aren't escaped to be visible, e.g. the NULs in the output. Leaving the listing scrolling up the screen I find there must be escape codes in there that cause a switch of character set since only digits remain after a while with everything else being line-drawing characters. -t and -tv output format is well-known so I don't think the fact that this happens to be a -g tar file should cause this non-escaped, non-formatted output to be interleaved with the -t/-tv lines. -tvv may be good enough to display them, but only then if they're escaped and better formatted to be readable. Otherwise a --debug-listed-incremental may be a better idea to make clear it's intended for developers and not users. Cheers, Ralph. _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list Bug-tar@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
