[Bug-tar] Bug in remove-files

[Strand, Jörgen]

When using –remove-files together with –r and –C wrong files will be removed.

 

> tar --version

tar (GNU tar) 1.26

Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

 

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.

> mkdir foo

> echo bar > bar

> echo foobar > foo/bar

> tar -cf foo.tar --remove-files -C foo bar

> find

.

./bar

./foo

./foo.tar

> echo foobar > foo/bar

> tar -rf foo.tar --remove-files -C foo bar

> find

.

./foo

./foo/bar

./foo.tar