tar totally burned me very very recently. I wrote a Python script to create a tar file from a bunch of different ML model artifacts. The tar file untarred fine

tar totally burned me very very recently. I wrote a Python script to create a tar file from a bunch of different ML model artifacts. The tar file untarred fine to my computer, but I could not open it with an existing Go program. The Go program would try to create files and folders if they weren’t available, but it seemed the way I had made the tar file, it didn’t “create an empty directory” first before adding the files in that directory. When I untarred it in the terminal with xvf I would see the files in the directories inside the tarball being created. But when I untarred a previous working version of this tarball, it would create the directory before untarring it. Googling all of this is impossible by the way. I couldn’t figure out how to get Python to create a “blank directory” first inside the tarball so eventually I gave up and made my script take in a path to an already existing folder instead of individual files.