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RE: tar ball with illegal file names
- To: 'Earnie Boyd' <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, Dan Lipofsky <dlipofsky at kurion dot com>
- Subject: RE: tar ball with illegal file names
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-gmbh dot de>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:33:23 +0100
Hi Earnie,
cute trick! I work on *ix long enough that I should
have remembered tar -O, but that obviously doesn't
preserve ownership, permissions and timestamps!
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [SMTP:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 23:13
> To: Dan Lipofsky
> Cc: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: Re: tar ball with illegal file names
>
[Heribert] [snip]
> tar --to-stdout -xf foo.tar foo:bar > foobar
>
> Earnie
>
> P.S.: tar --help would have given a clue.
>
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