Pavel Raiskup <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> what are the reasons to not take member name argument './file' and 'file'
> equivalently?  So far I found only one point in documentation that it is
> essential because tar preserves filenames (2.7. How to List Archives).

Are you asking this because of a possible file name length reduction?

Star strips off ./ before archiving files since 28 years, this is longer than 
gtar exists and I did not get any complaint about that fact since than.

Jörg

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