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One tar Command, Eight Extractions: The 512 Bytes POSIX Left Unspecified

How many files should come out of an archive that was built from three? Every tool you have ever used will answer three, and for any normal archive they would be right. On November 7, Harmen Stoppels published a ten-kilobyte tar file, built with a single GNU tar invocation and no hand-assembled byt…

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  1. 2026-11-10 19:04 · DEV Community — AI
    One tar Command, Eight Extractions: The 512 Bytes POSIX Left Unspecified

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