Re: [Bug-tar] TAR creates hard links or duplicated files inside archive when using -T option

[Tim Kientzle]

On Nov 2, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Live user wrote:

> The issue is very easy to reproduce:
> 
> mkdir -p r/libs/ r/prefs/
> 
> touch _manifest \
> r/androidTrophy.dat \
> r/libs/libAndroid.so \
> r/InsTime \
> r/prefs/gl_ver
> 
> Put into list.txt :
> _manifest
> r/androidTrophy.dat
> r/libs/
> r/libs/libAndroid.so
> r/InsTime
> r/prefs/
> r/prefs/gl_ver
> 
> tar -cvf myarchive.tar -T list.txt
> 
> There are 2 hard links created, libAndroid.so and gl_ver

You need to specify -n

Tim