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Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 14:55:09 -0700
From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: BSD tar broken file name parsing
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On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 01:26:21AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
> Just had a really strange one, on a fresh 6.1 install
> tar will not extract named files e.g.
> tar -xvzPf my.tar.gz /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
>=20
> The above fails to extract the file which quite
> clearly exists:
> tar -tvzPf my.tar.gz | grep /usr/local/etc/httpd.conf
> -rw-r--r--  0 root   wheel   37202 May  6 23:30=20
> /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
>=20
> Similarly -tvzPf naming the file doesnt find the file.
>=20
> Using wild cards finds the file:
> tar -tvzPf my.tar.gz '*httpd.conf'                           =20
> -rw-r--r--  0 root   wheel   37202 May  6 23:30=20
> /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
>=20
> I suspect its -P processing that is broken. Installing
> gtar and using that works fine:
> gtar -xvzPf my.tar.gz /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf     =20
> /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
>=20
> gtar -tvzPf my.tar.gz /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
> -rw-r--r-- root/wheel    37202 2006-05-06 23:30:58=20
> /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf

Hmm, it look's like -P isn't quite doing it's job.

-- Brooks

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