Per report [1], do you think that we could hash the already reported messages somewhere, and skip printing them repeatedly on stderr (for each file), and _by default_?
$ tar tf some.star.gz ... /usr/bin/tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev' /usr/bin/tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.ino' ... /usr/bin/tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev' /usr/bin/tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.ino' ... Perhaps we could print ... /usr/bin/tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev' ... /usr/bin/tar: The --no-repeated-errors filter: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'. ... Of course we could add support for those headers... but that is different thing now. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1823866 Pavel