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

Daniel Colascione dancol@dancol.org
Fri Jul 13 17:40:00 GMT 2012


On 7/13/12 10:26 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> So, everyone, please let this drop unless you have a constructive
> suggestion.

Speaking of pragmatism: what about a CYGWIN environment variable to
turn off the behavior? That way, people like the OP could extract
their archives without worry, and it wouldn't affect the majority of
people. We could go one step beyond that and have rsync, tar, and so
on turn off the feature internally too so that everything just works.

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