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

[Helmut Waitzmann]

"Dat Head" <address@hidden> writes:

>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

Yes.

Either

>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)

or, if you want to name all the files and directories by yourself, supply
the additional parameter "--no-recursion" to GNU tar:  GNU tar will not
recurse into directories, then.
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