hi, I hope someone can help me to make 'tar' "behave" as expected. tia.
when I create an archive with '-cvWf' I'm used to finding only the files specified, but every time I use 'tar' on this Debian, there is a "link" for each and every file. why? eg: -rw------- jr/jr 256 2022-06-1 22:10 .config/pulse/cookie hrw------- jr/jr 0 2022-06-12 22:10 .config/pulse/cookie link to .config/pulse/cookie cannot find a mention in the man page. have also tried the '-o' ("old-style archive") option, but made no difference. $ cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="11" VERSION="11 (bullseye)" VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/" SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/" $ cat /etc/debian_version 11.5 $ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.34 Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.