According to GNU's tar manual [http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#SEC110], '--no-recursion' and '--recursion' options "apply to later options and operands, and can be overridden by later occurrences of '--no-recursion' and '--recursion'".
This is *not* the case. Please see the attached test case [recursion.sh] regards, mikeY
recursion.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
