Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> While working on one software, I face the requirement
> to untar a tar file on windows and it contains symlinks as
> well.
>
> While untaring it using tar -xvf abc.tar, it gives me below
> error for symlinks:
>
> tar.exe: xyz/1234: Cannot create symlink to `E:\\sym_loc': Not a directory
>
> The directory sym_loc already exists, is this a known
> limitation of tar on Windows?
Win-DOS does not support symlinks. Even newer versions that claim to support
symlinks make a difference between links to files and links to directories.
If you are not able to live with the Cygwin symlink emulation, I recommend to
use star and to tell it to make copies by using the option -copysymlinks
Jörg
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