Re: Problem with GNU tar version 1.13.25

[Paul Eggert]

Wayne Pollock <address@hidden> writes:

> Either with or without xargs, tar was archiving many files more than
> once!  In some cases it seems to be once only, sometimes twice,
> and sometimes more than that.  This only appears to be a problem
> with "--null -T -" options.

> address@hidden etc]# find . -print0 | tar -cz --null -T - -f /tmp/foo.tgz

Normally tar outputs all files under a directory, and find outputs
both the directory name and the files under that directory, so
that would explain why tar is outputting the files more than once.

You might try "tar -cz -f /tmp/foo.tgz ."