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Unix tar file with colons in archived file names
- From: gmoney3138 <tcymone at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:29:26 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Unix tar file with colons in archived file names
All--
I'm trying to get a clear answer on this one. I have a gzipped tar file
from a customer that was originated on Unix. Inside the tar.gz are a series
of files that look something like this:
systemlog_071607_09:25.log
systemlog_071607_10:07.log
etc...
Basically, as per their log file naming method, they used a colon to
separate hours from minutes--terrible, I know, but it's what I have to work
with.
When the cygwin tar recognizes this, due to Windows restrictions, the output
file is not properly extracted. I Googled around and found options for
--force-file and http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-01/msg01536.html this
link , but I still can't get this to work properly.
I am able to get the files extracted if I use WinRAR (it converts : to _ on
extract), but I'd prefer to do this from the shell since I can automate this
more readily. Any ideas how I can do this?
~~Thanks much~~
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