In message <000a01bf720a$b4e15950$5e23a8c0@rgb94.cat.co.za>, "Stuart Brooks" wr
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>However with the tar command it always seems to return 0, whether it
>succeeds or not. I have experimented with piping the output of the tar
>through grep to detect errors but is there some easier way of doing things?
>Am I missing something simple?

I think 'tar' may just be naive about return status; it may be figuring that,
since it "successfully" recovered from errors, all is well.

You might try using 'pax' instead.  Different interface, nicer program.

-s