Hello! I think I found a part of the documentation that hasn't been correctly updated to reflect the relatively recent `--recursion`/`--no-recursion` change.
>From <https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/recurse.html>: > The `--no-recursion' and `--recursion' options apply to later options and > operands, and can be overridden by later occurrences of `--no-recursion' > and `--recursion'. This is good. But above it the following example is shown: > $ find dir tests | \ > tar -cf archive -T - --no-recursion Note how `--no-recursion` is after `-T -` instead in front of it, this means it has no effect. Thanks! Patrick