Hi Paul Robert Marino! On 2013.07.24 at 20:49:18 -0400, Paul Robert Marino wrote next:
> Admittedly my knowledge about modern versions of GNU tar may be out of date. > My > experiences with older versions oder the last 18 years was it didn't support > those things. Glad to hear its been updated :-) I will be eager to read the > man > files tomorrow so I can update some old scripts I wrote a long time ago. The support appeared in mainline tar only recently (about 2 years ago in 1.26), but UV has been patching tar that goes with EL distributions to support this for quite a time (at least since RHEL5 release, http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/07/02/tips-from-an-rhce-tar-vs-star-the-battle-of-xattrs/) In SL6 it's still just tar 1.23 but it fully supports it. So yes, go ahead and use it! It should be supported on about every system by now. -- Vladimir
