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[Bug-tar] Bug un GNU tar with multiple instances of the same file and -U


From: Jean-Paul Smeets
Subject: [Bug-tar] Bug un GNU tar with multiple instances of the same file and -U
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 11:34:20 +0000

Hi,

 

When trying the following I get an error:

 

echo Test > test.txt

# Put file in twice

tar -cvf test.tar test.txt test.txt

tar –Uxvf test.tar

 

I see the file is put in once normally and once as a hardlink.

However extraction fails.

 

Best regards,

Jean-Paul Smeets

 

 

 

 

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