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Subject: Re: Unix tar file with colons in archived file names
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Thanks to all, that just might be what I'm looking for.

Also, I made a typo in my original message.  My mistake :).  I meant to type
"force-local" instead of "force-file".  According to the tar help pages:

--force-local          archive file is local even if it has a colon

I couldn't get this to work, though.


Brian Dessent wrote:
> 
> gmoney3138 wrote:
> 
>> When the cygwin tar recognizes this, due to Windows restrictions, the
>> output
>> file is not properly extracted.  I Googled around and found options for
> 
> Use a managed mount or "--transform s,:,_,g".
> 
> I'm not sure what this --force-file you mention is but it's not a valid
> tar option.  --force-local might have been what you were looking for,
> however the purpose of that is for overriding the meaning of colon when
> specifying the name of the input file to read, not for dealing with
> filenames inside a tarball that contain a colon, so it's irrelevant to
> this case.
> 
> Brian
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