Is there a way to suppress valid files beginning with dot (.) in a tar archive giving false errors and files?
A more refined search brought up:


http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/macosx.html
https://norman.walsh.name/2008/02/22/tar


using export COPYFILE_DISABLE=true before extracting the archive prevents the dotfile processing:

$ rm -r test_dir
$ export COPYFILE_DISABLE=true
$ tar xzf test_dir.tar.gz 
$ ll test_dir
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  3 xxxx  xxxx    96B Jul 31 16:47 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 xxxx  xxxx   128B Jul 31 16:47 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 xxxx  xxxx     6B Jul 31 16:22 ._SUCCESS.crc