Hi, thanks for the report. On Friday, March 31, 2017 1:41:20 PM CEST N wrote: > I'v recently updated my tar to 1.29. > I use flexbackup and got a regression. > The cause was ignoring --no-recursion parameter. > So, I would like to report a bug. > > I found, that tar behavior depends on parameter position. > [...] > It seems that bug is reproduced only if --no-recursion is applied after > filenames. > > Could you please confirm this bug?
That's expected behavior, the --(no-)recursion is possition sensitive option, https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Position_002dSensitive-Options.html Pavel