tar bug?
I haven't used tar that much so I don't know if this is the way it has
always been or if this is a bug.
Tar automatically excludes the archive being created from archive in
order to prevent an infinite loop.
$ tar -cvvf /home/colin/tartest/test/tartest.tar /home/colin/tartest/*
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
-rw-r--r-- colin/colin 20 2005-08-09 09:20:34 /home/colin/tartest/file
drwxr-xr-x colin/colin 0 2005-08-09 09:35:41 /home/colin/tartest/test/
tar: /home/colin/tartest/test/tartest.tar: file is the archive; not dumped
but if you use compression it will include the file
$ tar -cjvvf /home/colin/tartest/test/tartest.tar /home/colin/tartest/*
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
-rw-r--r-- colin/colin 20 2005-08-09 09:20:34 /home/colin/tartest/file
drwxr-xr-x colin/colin 0 2005-08-09 09:37:26 /home/colin/tartest/test/
-rw-r--r-- colin/colin 0 2005-08-09 09:37:26
/home/colin/tartest/test/tartest.tar
$ tar -czvvf /home/colin/tartest/test/tartest.tar /home/colin/tartest/*
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
-rw-r--r-- colin/colin 20 2005-08-09 09:20:34 /home/colin/tartest/file
drwxr-xr-x colin/colin 0 2005-08-09 09:38:13 /home/colin/tartest/test/
-rw-r--r-- colin/colin 0 2005-08-09 09:38:13
/home/colin/tartest/test/tartest.tar
You must manually exclude the file to get around the problem.
Is this the normal behavior of tar?????
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