Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:38:18 -0800 (PST) From: Kevin Dorne <root@tentacle.net> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: gnu/34939: tar quits silently creating archive containing a file with a backslash in the name Message-ID: <200202142038.g1EKcIJ97541@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 34939
>Category: gnu
>Synopsis: tar quits silently creating archive containing a file with a backslash in the name
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Feb 14 12:40:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Kevin Dorne
>Release: 4.5-STABLE
>Organization:
Tentacle.net
>Environment:
FreeBSD chaos.tentacle.net 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Wed Feb 6 12:12:52 PST 2002 root@chaos.tentacle.net:/usr/local/obj/usr/local/src/sys/CHAOS i386
>Description:
I first encountered this problem using tar with the -T option.
If you create an archive including a file with a backslash, such as 'foo\' or 'f\oo', tar will silently stop creating the archive at that file, ignoring all following files.
>How-To-Repeat:
Create an archive with a file containing a backslash ('\').
Most apparent when using a file list (-T option):
create a file 'contents':
foo
bar
oof\
rab
% tar -cv -T contents -f archive.tar
foo
bar
>Fix:
Workaround: rename files, removing backslashes
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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