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Re: Bug with tar command
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: Bug with tar command |
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Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:46:50 -0400 |
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jason nguyen <address@hidden> wrote:
> For example, if my "test.tar" contains the file "test[1].txt", this
> command will give me an error:
> "tar -xvf test.tar test[1].txt".
Brackets are special to the shell, so you have to quote them if you
want tar to see them verbatim:
$ tar -xvf test.tar 'test[1].txt'
If that still doesn't work, show us what the error message is.
paul