Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 17:00:58 +0700 From: Olivier <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> To: Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com> Cc: guru@unixarea.de, pho@freebsd.org, steve@sohara.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem while moving HOME from FreeBSD to MacOS with bsdtar Message-ID: <wu7wn3q8crp.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <CADqw_gKqHTn3rKiQ1ZrD4Bbfb-spuR4Vy-6vbdfw_K7qbTOk1A@mail.gmail.com> (message from Michael Schuster on Thu, 9 Mar 2023 10:55:30 %2B0100)
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> 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 M=C3=A4r 09:37 HOM= EWORK >> 4016236 -rw-r--r-- 1 apitzm OCLC\Domain Users 0 9 M=C3=A4r 09:37 Hom= ework 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
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