Hi Brian, > I have trouble getting the --directory=dir to work when dir include > white-space(s)
Using tar 1.30 here,
$ mkdir 'foo bar'
$ >'foo bar'/xyzzy
$ tar --directory='foo bar' -cvf brian.tar xyzzy
xyzzy
$ find | sort -V
.
./brian.tar
./foo bar
./foo bar/xyzzy
$ tar tvf brian.tar
-rw-r--r-- ralph/ralph 0 2018-06-27 13:41 xyzzy
$
Note, -C is `order sensitive', as the fine man page says.
If you can't recreate the above, show and tell.
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