Re: problem while moving HOME from FreeBSD to MacOS with bsdtar

Reply: Michael Schuster : "Re: problem while moving HOME from FreeBSD to MacOS with bsdtar"
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From: Olivier <Olivier.Nicole_at_cs.ait.ac.th>
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:00:58 UTC

> I read that differently: it's a single entry (see 'ls -li' further
> up), but matches any case:
>
>> $ ls -li Homework HOMEWORK
>> 4016236 -rw-r--r--  1 apitzm  OCLC\Domain Users  0  9 Mär 09:37 HOMEWORK
>> 4016236 -rw-r--r--  1 apitzm  OCLC\Domain Users  0  9 Mär 09:37 Homework

In Unix parlance, it is called a link (or a hard link): two filenames
(possibly in two different directories, but must be in the same file
system) sharing a single inode.

That is completely normal, but that should not be what is created by tar
-x (or by touch) by default.

Bests,

Olivier