On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 02:20:48 -0500 (EST), Javier Barroso wrote: > If you are using stdout as tar output, including filenames there will > corrupt that output, so it is logical that in this case filenames goes > to stderr. That does make sense, now that I think about it. I didn't look closely enough. I saw what I expected to see. The extracted files themselves "always" go to disk. But they don't in this case. Thanks.