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Why is this message not being suppressed?

$ tar -czf test.tgz / 2>&1 > /dev/null
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names

And I don't really want to use the -P option.

[Please cc me on all replies; thanks]
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Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/