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

[Paul Eggert]

Jean-Paul Smeets wrote:

> 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.

I don't see a problem here.  It's *supposed* to fail: you told 'tar' to remove 
then file and then to link from it.

Presumably this is derived from some larger use case; it'd be nice to know what 
that use case is.