On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 10:29:13AM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > If I have an archive containing the file ./usr/bin/[, call it > source.tar, should I expect this to work? > > # echo ./usr/bin/[ > files > # tar xf source.tar -T files > > What I've found is that tar won't extract the file. It generates an > error stating that the file ./usr/bin/[ is not found. Changing the > recipe slightly does seem to fix the error, but I'm not sure that this > should be expected. > > > # echo ./usr/bin/\\[ > files > # tar xf source.tar -T files > > According to the man page, the contents of the -T file are filenames, > not patterns. Are they really patterns though?
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