Re: question re tar

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Max Nikulin wrote:
> It seems some files are present multiple times in your list.
> tar cvWf test.tar file.txt file.txt

Well if it is that easy to create the situation, i can test what happens
on restoring the tarball:

  $ tar cvf test.tar x x
  x
  x
  $ rm x
  rm: remove regular file ‘x’? y
  $ tar xvf test.tar
  x
  x
  $ ls -1
  test.tar
  x

No error messages.

This is the behavior promised by
  https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/multiple.html
for the case of later adding a newer version of the same file to the
tarball.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas