1 # Process this file with autom4te to create testsuite. -*- Autotest -*-
3 # Test suite for GNU tar.
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21 AT_SETUP([The --add-file option])
22 AT_KEYWORDS([add-file])
24 # Version 1.29 would give "tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive"
25 # if only --add-file arguments were used, and would give "tar: unhandled
26 # positional option 0" when handling the --add-file if at least one file was
27 # also given normally.
29 # Reported by: James Clarke <jrtc27@jrtc27.com>
30 # References: <20161112000246.77013-1-jrtc27@jrtc27.com>,
31 # http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2016-11/msg00013.html
39 tar -cvf arc.tar --add-file foo --add-file -File
42 tar -cvf arc.tar foo --add-file -File bar
51 tar -cvf arc.tar -T input