question re tar
hi,
I hope someone can help me to make 'tar' "behave" as expected. tia.
when I create an archive with '-cvWf' I'm used to finding only the files
specified, but every time I use 'tar' on this Debian, there is a "link" for
each and every file. why? eg:
-rw------- jr/jr 256 2022-06-1 22:10 .config/pulse/cookie
hrw------- jr/jr 0 2022-06-12 22:10 .config/pulse/cookie link to
.config/pulse/cookie
cannot find a mention in the man page. have also tried the '-o'
("old-style archive") option, but made no difference.
$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="11"
VERSION="11 (bullseye)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/";
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support";
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/";
$ cat /etc/debian_version
11.5
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.34
Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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.
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