From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18984 invoked by alias); 4 Sep 2012 23:53:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 18973 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Sep 2012 23:53:03 -0000 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 Received: from mail1.multiplay.co.uk (HELO mail1.multiplay.co.uk) (85.236.96.23) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:52:50 +0000 X-Spam-Processed: mail1.multiplay.co.uk, Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:52:46 +0100 Received: from r2d2 ([188.220.16.49]) by mail1.multiplay.co.uk (mail1.multiplay.co.uk [85.236.96.23]) (MDaemon PRO v10.0.4) with ESMTP id md50021664852.msg for ; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:52:45 +0100 X-MDRemoteIP: 188.220.16.49 X-Return-Path: prvs=159455d173=killing@multiplay.co.uk X-Envelope-From: killing@multiplay.co.uk X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: cygwin@cygwin.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: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:53:00 -0000 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@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-09/txt/msg00056.txt.bz2 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