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Re: tar ball with illegal file names


Dan Lipofsky wrote:
> 
> I have a tar file which I made on a Linux machine.
> Some files inside that tar have names that are
> illegal on a NTFS filesystem: they contain
> a colon, questionmark, or double-quote.  Is
> there anyway to extract these files on a Windows machine?
> Both cygwin's tar and winzip just try to extract
> under its original name and fail.  I need a tool
> that will prompt me or modify the name or something.

tar --to-stdout -xf foo.tar foo:bar > foobar

Earnie

P.S.: tar --help would have given a clue.

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