Hello, This may be related to the bug https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2019-01/msg00015.html However to make sure it is covered, I get abort as well extracting a non-empty directory with the following reproducible command:
$ mkdir d;touch d/file;tar cf - --no-recursion d | tar xf - --keep-newer-files Aborted Thanks for your consideration Kewl