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Re: Unix tar file with colons in archived file names



When the cygwin tar recognizes this, due to Windows restrictions, the output file is not properly extracted. I Googled around and found options for --force-file and http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-01/msg01536.html this link , but I still can't get this to work properly.

I am able to get the files extracted if I use WinRAR (it converts : to _ on
extract), but I'd prefer to do this from the shell since I can automate this
more readily.  Any ideas how I can do this?

just use "--transform='s/:/_/g'", you can turn the colons into whatever you want.


-lewis


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