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

[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
 		 	   		  

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