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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: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 01:39:41 +0100
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----- 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

Yep, apparently its "by design" :(

It causes us pain regularly so we would like this fairly
recent change reverted so behaviour is once again predicatable
and it doesnt break simple takess like extracting archive.

    Regards
    Steve


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