On Oct 31, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Live user wrote:

> When creating a tar archive with this command
> 
> tar -cvf myarchive.tar -T list.txt
> 
> Using the command from Linux causes to create a lot of hard links to files 
> with the same name, and doing that from OS X Mountain Lion creates a lot of 
> zero bytes duplicated files.
> 
> The list.txt was obtained from a list of an already existent tar.
> 
> How to solve that?


Try using the -n option as well.  Most people who have
problems with -T need to add -n.

Tim


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