If I have an archive containing the file ./usr/bin/[, call it source.tar, should I expect this to work?
# echo ./usr/bin/[ > files # tar xf source.tar -T files What I've found is that tar won't extract the file. It generates an error stating that the file ./usr/bin/[ is not found. Changing the recipe slightly does seem to fix the error, but I'm not sure that this should be expected. # echo ./usr/bin/\\[ > files # tar xf source.tar -T files According to the man page, the contents of the -T file are filenames, not patterns. Are they really patterns though? _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
