If the names of archive members contain spaces, then when you try to extract them using
--files-from=file-name -T file-name an error message is displayed and the operation is canceled. I am sorry, slip-up. True Example: $ mkdir "test 1" $ echo "asdfghh" > "test 1/test 1.txt" $ tar -czv -f "test 1.tar.xz" "test 1" $ echo "test 1/" > "list.txt" $ echo "test 1/test 1.txt" >> "list.txt" $ tar -xv -f "test 1.tar.xz" -T list.txt" test 1/ test 1/test 1.txt tar: test 1/list.txt: Not found in archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors But it's OK running: $ tar -xv -f "test 1.tar.xz" "test 1/test 1.txt" test 1/test 1.txt
