[KLUG Members] tar oddities

[bill]

Is there a command to immediately confirm that all the file data is identical?

That way, instead of looking for errors while the tar is making the archive, I
could just look at the output on the file compare.

Jamie McCarthy wrote:

> bill@billtron.com (bill) writes:
>
> > file changed as we read it
>
> The just means its modification date changed between the time tar
> opened it and closed it.
>
> > I can confirm the file hasn't changed on the system.  And
> > extracting the file and comparing it with the original shows no
> > difference.
>
> That's exactly what you should do, and if diff says there's no
> difference, you're fine.
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