Hi Nathan, > Just to be clear, version 1.27 did behave differently from the earlier > versions, and then 1.27.1 was released in order to change the behavior > back to match the earlier versions.
Not quite so. The bug you are referring to affected file names read from a file supplied with the -T option, not the ones listed in the command line. The latter were handled as always. To wit: $ ls --quoting-style=literal \ \\ $ tar --version|head -1 tar (GNU tar) 1.27 $ tar cfv ../2.tar * \\ \\ Regards, Sergey