X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL,TW_CV,TW_XV X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Spam-Processed: mail1.multiplay.co.uk, Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:52:46 +0100 X-MDRemoteIP: 188.220.16.49 X-Return-Path: prvs=159455d173=killing AT multiplay DOT co DOT uk X-Envelope-From: killing AT multiplay DOT co DOT uk X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <7A5AFFB801A449269EEB73EF87BEB206@multiplay.co.uk> From: "Steven Hartland" To: "Aaron Schneider" , References: 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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 -- 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