Hi, Here's another quirk I've found:
$ echo test > BZh5 $ tar --format=v7 -cf test.tar BZh5 $ tar -xf test.tar bzip2: stdin: compressed data error: bad block header magic tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now I think the easiest solution would be to copy the trick used by libarchive, citing: /* After BZh[1-9], there must be either a data block * which begins with 0x314159265359 or an end-of-data * marker of 0x177245385090. */ However, this wouldn't help with the harder (though less likely to occur accidentally) case of: $ echo test > 'BZh91AY&SY' ;-) -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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