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Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive


----- 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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