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From: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
To: "Aaron Schneider" <notstop@users.sourceforge.net>, <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 00:52:29 +0100
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Quite an old issue, its due to the special handling of .exe files if you search the archives you'll find lots of mentions of it.

    Regards
    Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Schneider"



$ touch myfile myfile.exe



$ tar -cvf mytar.tar myfile.exe myfile



$ tar -xvf mytar.tar



Only myfile will be written to the filesystem




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