On Feb 19, 2015, at 7:33 PM, Sean Morrison <ssmc...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am using tar (GNU tar) 1.26, which is the version installed on mac OS X > Yosemite.
Are you sure? Mac OS X Yosemite ships with: % /usr/bin/tar --version bsdtar 2.8.3 - libarchive 2.8.3 % sw_vers ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.10.2 BuildVersion: 14C109 ...not a version of GNU tar. Regards, -- -Chuck