On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> But on many implementations, that will not work. tar detects the
> output is going to the bit bucket, and so doesn't bother to actually
> read the data.
Really? Getting smart on us?
Shame on it. Who asked it to be smart?