Public bug reported:
the extracting of multiple files from a tar file doesnt work as
expected:
$ touch a{a,b,c,d} b{a,b}
wildcard adding of files is ok:
$ tar cfa test.tar.bz2 a* b*
$ rm a* b*
$ tar xfa test.tar.bz2 "b*"
tar: Pattern matching characters used in file names. Please,
tar: use --wildcards to enable pattern matching, or --no-wildcards to
tar: suppress this warning.
tar: b*: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
it looks like i need the "--wildcards" option for doing this
$ tar --wildcards xfa test.tar.bz2 "b*"
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
but this is not true
$ tar --wildcards -xfa test.tar.bz2 "b*"
tar: a: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
$ tar --wildcards -xa test.tar.bz2 "b*"
simply hangs and does nothing :(
expected behavior:
$ tar xfa test.tar.bz2 "b*"
ba
bb
like any other file-archiving program
if this is not tar compliant, there should be at least an
--extractasexpected option to enable this feature!
** Affects: tar (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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tar: extract with wildcards missleading
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365021
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