Re: explicit extraction of files behind (sym)links

[Paul Eggert]

On 7/22/22 01:13, Aiyion.Prime wrote:
> Is there a flag to tell tar "I dont care if you have to seacrh the 
> archive twice, but extract the original file instead of creating an 
> (invalid) hardlink"?

Unfortunately not. It'd be a nontrivial job to add such a flag that 
would work in the presence of arbitrary symlinks, though you're welcome 
to try.