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Tar encodes my user name into the tarball. Can I force it to make a fully anonymous tarball?

--owner root replaces only some instances of my user name. Adding USER=root: USER=root tar c --owner root data has no effect.

In short, I wish for:

echo hello world > data; tar c --owner root data | grep "$USER"

to NOTnot match.

Tar encodes my user name into the tarball. Can I force it to make a fully anonymous tarball?

--owner root replaces only some instances of my user name. Adding USER=root: USER=root tar c --owner root data has no effect.

In short, I wish for:

echo hello world > data; tar c --owner root data | grep "$USER"

to NOT match.

Tar encodes my user name into the tarball. Can I force it to make a fully anonymous tarball?

--owner root replaces only some instances of my user name. Adding USER=root: USER=root tar c --owner root data has no effect.

In short, I wish for:

echo hello world > data; tar c --owner root data | grep "$USER"

to not match.

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asked Apr 21, 2016 at 7:10

Anonymous tarballs

Tar encodes my user name into the tarball. Can I force it to make a fully anonymous tarball?

--owner root replaces only some instances of my user name. Adding USER=root: USER=root tar c --owner root data has no effect.

In short, I wish for:

echo hello world > data; tar c --owner root data | grep "$USER"

to NOT match.

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