I'm trying to use gnu tar with the -g option, but whenever I make a
backup, I get these crazy 11-digit numbers that precede each resotred
file when I do a restore from the archive. I don't know if these are
timestamps or inode numbers or what, but I can't seem to figure out how
not to get them. They show up when doing a list or a restore of the tar
archive.
While googling, I saw one other post about this problem but no resolution.
I am running gnu tar version 1.13 under solaris 8. I obtained the
package pre-built from the solaris package archive at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/sparc/
Thanks for any help.
-Jonathan
Example:
> mkdir a b
> touch a/a a/b b/a b/b b/c
> gtar cvfg test.tar test.list a b
a/
b/
a/a
a/b
b/a
b/b
b/c
>rm -fR a b
> gtar xvfg test.tar test.list
10157406456/a/
10157406456/b/
10157406132/a/a
10157406132/a/b
10157406132/b/a
10157406132/b/b
10157406132/b/c