On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:44:22 +1200, Sebastian Unger wrote: > I just noticed that the combination of options --extract --incremental > --directory <path> does not work as expected. As far as I can tell > --incremental is ignored and files are not deleted as they should be.
For what it's worth, I believe your issue is the same as the one that was discussed in this thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2013-03/msg00036.html Nathan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - natha...@ontko.com - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239