Hello.. I've search through bug list archive and didn't find any suitable..
I have fedora (7) box with tar 1.15.1 on board.. command: tar cvf archive.tar ./ --remove-files will perfectly create tar file and remove all archived files.. but tar cvjf archive.tar.bz2 ./ --remove-files will also remove archive.tar.bz2 couse it look like tar won't recognize *.tar.bz2 as own archive little dump: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Temporary]$ mkdir test1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Temporary]$ cd test1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] test1]$ touch bnbb1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] test1]$ *tar cvf here.tar ./ --remove-files* ./ tar: ./here.tar: file* is the archive*; not dumped ./bnbb1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] test1]$ [EMAIL PROTECTED] test1]$ [EMAIL PROTECTED] test1]$ ls -la total 20 drwxrwxr-x 2 admin admin 4096 2007-07-18 11:38 . drwxrwxr-x 9 admin admin 4096 2007-07-18 11:37 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 admin admin 10240 2007-07-18 11:38 *here.tar ** *same with -j option [EMAIL PROTECTED] test1]$ tar cvjf here.tar.bz2 ./ --remove-files ./ ./bnbb1 ./*here.tar.bz2 <-- oops* [EMAIL PROTECTED] test1]$ [EMAIL PROTECTED] test1]$ ls -la total 8 drwxrwxr-x 2 admin admin 4096 2007-07-18 11:38 . drwxrwxr-x 9 admin admin 4096 2007-07-18 11:37 .. This behaviour was quite shocking for me cause i've lost a big bunch of data.. Sincerely, *nix fan
