[nmglug] tar question,

[Andres Paglayan]

man tar says that the -u option will replace/overwrite modified files
within the tar file,

suppose that i have two files, file1 and file2 under files/

what's happening here is the following

$ tar uf example.tar files
$ tar tf example.tar
files/
files/file1
files/file2
$ touch files/file1
$ touch files/file2
$ tar uf example.tar files
$ tar tf example.tar
files/
files/file1
files/file2
files/file1
files/file2

and example.tar is doubling its size, it looks more like it's appending
rather than updating,
any ideas?
??



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