Hi, I think I found a bug in tar 1.29 I was trying to tar up files that were listed line by line, but their names contained weird characters. According to every source, --verbatim-files-from should work in this case. It does not work. Neither did using zero terminated strings instead of lines.
The file list in question is attached. The error message was: ``` tar: Removing leading `/' from member names tar: /home/rain/Pictures/steven/\:\\.jpg: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors ``` And yes it's true the picture did not exist but it's also just as true that the file's name was ":\\.jpg" (because it's a reaction picture folder and that's the face the character makes) I checked with BSD tar and it worked fine. -rain
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