Re: Bug with tar command

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain]

Try this:

  tar -xvf test.tar 'test[1].txt'

The issue is that the square brackets are magic characters to your shell.
So when you say:

  tar -xvf test.tar test[1].txt

Your shell interprets the [1] part, in a way that is bad for you.
Use single quotes so that the shell does not interpret the [1] part
and passes the exact string that you want to tar.

Michael C