A while back, a Debian developer observed that using --delete can in at least some cases cause filenames after the deleted ones to be corrupted. There's a test case in the bug log at
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=869087 I was able to confirm that this still happens with tar 1.30. Any idea what's happening and why? Bdale
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