X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_CV,TW_XV X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: From: Aaron Schneider To: Subject: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:50:56 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id q6BKpGXl014334 $ touch myfile myfile.exe $ tar -cvf mytar.tar myfile.exe myfile $ tar -xvf mytar.tar Only myfile will be written to the filesystem -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple