On 19/09/2022 02:37, jr wrote:
when I saw the links and started investigating, I tried cat for the names, ie $ tar -cvWf $arcname $(cat $fnames) adding one or two file names on the command line works as expected, supplying names from list and or file produces those links.
It seems some files are present multiple times in your list. echo text >file.txt tar cvWf test.tar file.txt file.txt tar tvf test.tar -rw-rw-r-- user/user 5 2022-09-20 17:43 file.txt hrw-rw-r-- user/user 0 2022-09-20 17:43 file.txt link to file.txt
