The documentation for GNU tar 1.31 claims in section "3.8 Checkpoints":
The simplest value of action is `echo'. [...]
This is the default action, so running:
$ tar -c --checkpoint=1000 --checkpoint-action=echo /var
is equivalent to:
$ tar -c --checkpoint=1000 /var
However, this is
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 - -
