On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 08:00:35PM +0200, Christian Groessler wrote: > "tar" had an option to delete files which it is about to extract before > extraction. Wouldn't this solve the "symlink" issue at hand? What am I > missing?
See the SECURITY section in the man page. Both -U and -P are ways to dealing with this, but with different end result. Joerg
