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

[Live user]

On 02/11/2012 21:28, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> I believe that if you look closely at the output of the tar command
> you'll see that each of those files is added to the the archive as part
> of the processing the containing directory, and then a hard-link entry
> is added when the the list.txt line containing the explict filename is
> processed.
>
> If that's indeed the problem, then using the "--no-recursion" option
> should avoid the issue.

Thank you, that worked. Tar by default executes recursively, so 
depending on how it's been set up the list.txt to be used with -T 
option, the --no-recursion option may be used or not. In this case that 
includes every single file and folder, is mandatory.