Re: [Bug-tar] tar creating duplicated entries ?

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tar works recursively when given directory names and your filename list
has both the directory name and list of files so it does them all twice

you'll need to remove the dir name from your file list (or the list of
files if it is all files in the dir you want would also work)

On 10/30/06, address@hidden
> Really don't know if it's a bug or if we are using the tar command in
> the wrong way !
>
> We are using the tar command when archiving quite a lot (70.000 - 150.000 )
> of
> files and all filenames are stored in a text-file which are used as input to
> the tar command.
> It seems like its working fine but somehow the files are stored twice in the
> archive (but
> not directory entries)
>
> Platform are: HP-UX 11.23 Itanium
> Tar version: 1.15.1
>
> Command running.
> tar cf msg_log_archive -T filenames
>
> Are there any additional argument that we are missing or is it the tar that
> are generating something incorrect here.
>
> A short example output from a simple test.
> $ux9h20:/tmp/dennis> cat filenames
> /var/tmp/dennis
> /var/tmp/dennis/slask1
> /var/tmp/dennis/slask2
> /var/tmp/dennis/slask3
> $ux9h20:/tmp/dennis> gtar cf msg_log_archive -T filenames
> gtar: Removing leading `/' from member names
> $ux9h20:/tmp/dennis> gtar tvf msg_log_archive
> drwxr-xr-x xib/xib           0 2006-10-25 13:50:34 var/tmp/dennis/
> -rw-r--r-- xib/xib       10876 2006-10-25 13:50:18 var/tmp/dennis/slask1
> -rw-r--r-- xib/xib       82500 2006-10-25 13:50:26 var/tmp/dennis/slask2
> -rw-r--r-- xib/xib        1361 2006-10-25 13:50:34 var/tmp/dennis/slask3
> -rw-r--r-- xib/xib       10876 2006-10-25 13:50:18 var/tmp/dennis/slask1
> -rw-r--r-- xib/xib       82500 2006-10-25 13:50:26 var/tmp/dennis/slask2
> -rw-r--r-- xib/xib        1361 2006-10-25 13:50:34 var/tmp/dennis/slask3
>
>
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