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 > > 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 > /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf > > Similarly -tvzPf naming the file doesnt find the file. > > Using wild cards finds the file: > tar -tvzPf my.tar.gz '*httpd.conf' > -rw-r--r-- 0 root wheel 37202 May 6 23:30 > /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf > > 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 > /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf > > gtar -tvzPf my.tar.gz /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf > -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 37202 2006-05-06 23:30:58 > /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
Hmm, it look's like -P isn't quite doing it's job. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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