On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 09:27:27 +0200 Sergey Poznyakoff <g...@gnu.org.ua> wrote:
> Neal P. Murphy <neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu> ha escrit: > > > Wait. Do I have to explicitly specify every dir in each file's path > > when selecting a subset of files in a tarball? > > Judging by the question, the following link might be of interest to you: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2016-09/msg00019.html Ah. That was the other thing I began to suspect. Is this new-ish behaviour? I don't recall [some earlier version of] tar doing this. Or did those earlier versions just happen to do what was expected?
