On 07/17/2017 12:55 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
Tar does an alphabetical sort of the top level of the directory you're
tarring up.
No, tar does not do any sorting. It just process the directory entries in the order that readdir(3) returns them. For some filesystems, that will be a sorted list. For most filesystems, it is not.
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