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Here's a fun game for you: what do you expect to be the state of the filesystem after running the following commands in an empty directory on a Linux system?



$ touch foo:bar
$ tar -cpf foo:bar.tar foo:bar
$ rm foo:bar
$ tar -xpf foo:bar.tar



Do you expect the directory to contain the files 


foo:bar


 and 


foo:bar.tar


?




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roguelazer's website: Surprising behavior in GNU tar: https://www.roguelazer.com/2021/03/surprising-behavior-in-gnu-tar