tar problems in cygwin

Michael Hirmke mh@mike.franken.de
Sun Feb 28 23:02:00 GMT 1999


Hi Eric,

>Am I using tar incorrectly here or does tar under cygwin not work the same
>as in bash under Linux?
>
>BASH.EXE-2.02$ cd /
>BASH.EXE-2.02$ tar -xvfz /windows/desktop/emacs*
                        ^^^^^
                        This won't work in Unix, too, because it
                        takes z as an argument for f assuming it is a
                        filename.

tar -xvzf /windows/desktop/emacs*
would be correct.

[...]

Bye.
Michael.
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